Time of Favor (2000)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 42M
Director : Joseph Cedar
Sinopsis
Is today's fanaticism tomorrow's policy? In a West Bank settlement, Rabbi Meltzer has a grand design: he's building a movement "to pray at the Temple Mount." His yeshiva has scholars, and the settlement is getting its own military company to be commanded by Menachem, a disciple of the rabbi. He also wants his daughter, Michal, to marry Pini, the yeshiva's best scholar. Michal has no interest in Pini, but she is attracted to Menachem. When she rebuffs Pini, he hatches a bold and secret plan. Is jealousy the motivation or something else? Meanwhile, the army and Moussad are closely watching the rabbi's activities and Menachem's military training. Who is trustworthy?
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While the french ambassadress to Afghanistan is in the middle of disarmament negotiations with a Kuchi Nomad tribe, her daughter, Cleo, is Kidnapped by Afghanistan's only female warlord.
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Dos jóvenes mujeres sentadas en una cafetería un día de verano. Situaciones que se encuentran todos los días unas mil veces. Pero, ¿qué ocurre cuando intentas describir esa normalidad?
A headlong dive into the deepest, silliest recesses of Abrantes’s unconscious.
