Director: Natalie Portman
Cast: Natalie Portman, Makram Khoury…

US Release Date: August 19th, 2016
Filmed: February – March 2014

Natalie’s Character:  Fania Oz

Plot Summary: Based on the autobiography of the same name by Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness looks at the initial years of Independent Jerusalem, the civil war in Palestine, and a child’s observation of his mother’s struggling mental health. Natalie plays Fania, Amos’s mother; she, of course, also directed the film and adapted Oz’s story into a screenplay.

Notes:
-Pre-production took around eight years, as Natalie insisted that the film were to be with its featured dialogue entirely in Hebrew.

Running Time: 95 mins
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (USA)

Budget: $4,000,000
Gross: $569,381