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Monday, May 11, 2009
Lemon Tree
From the director and some of the people that took part in the also good The Syrian Bride, Lemon Tree examines the issues -- in a somewhat less absurdist fashion -- of the Israel/Palestinian border via a struggle over a lemon tree across from the house of the new Israeli Defense minister (the metaphorical nature of it all underlined by the guy's name -- Israel Navon). The female leads are particularly good.