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- 103 Minutes
- Sony Pictures Classics
- Language Hebrew
- Subtitles English
- Country Israel
- Rated:
- Format: 2.35:1
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- Directed by Joseph Cedar
- Written by Joseph Cedar
- Starring Aliza Rosen, Alma Zack, Daniel Markovich, Lior Ashkenazi, Micah Lewensohn, Nevo Kimchi, Shlomo Bar-abba, Yuval Scharf
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FOOTNOTE is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. Meanwhile his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. Then one day, the tables turn. When Eliezer learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son, Uriel, is thrilled to see his father's achievements finally recognized but, in a darkly funny twist, is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career and his father's. Will he sabotage his father's glory?
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Won: Best Screenplay, 2011 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, 2012 Academy Awards; Palme d'Or, 2011 Cannes Film Festival
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Both actors are tremendous: Bar Aba has the air of a near-boiling teakettle or an unexploded bomb, while Ashkenazi's Uriel looks on with a mixture of bafflement, exhaustion and reluctant affection.