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The conflict between Israel and Palestine is filtered through a deeply personal tale in this impressive feature from writer/director Eran Riklis. Salma Zidane (Hiam Abbass) is a lonely Palestinian widow who runs a beautiful lemon grove. But she faces trouble when the Israeli defense minister, Israel Navon (Doron Tavory), moves into her neighborhood, and his secret service agents request the destruction of the grove. The agents believe that terrorists could easily hide out in the trees and threaten the minister, so there is a court case to remove the trees. Devastated by the potential loss, Zidane hires a lawyer and takes the case to the Supreme Court, while Navon’s wife, Mira (Rona Lipaz-Michael), complicates matters by feeling sympathy for her new neighbor's plight. Riklis’s movie is downbeat and thoughtful and provides a satisfying follow-up to his acclaimed 2004 feature, THE SYRIAN BRIDE. At the heart of the picture are two isolated women, Zidane and the minister’s wife, who feel drawn to ...

DOBERMANN’s Jan Kounen directs this drama that chronicles the romance between fashion designer Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglalis, MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT) and composer Igor Stravinsky (Mads Mikkelsen, CASINO ROYALE). Though the unlikely pair meet in Paris in 1913, it isn’t until seven years later--after the death of Chanel’s lover Arthur "Boy" Capel and Stravinsky’s exile following the Russian Revolution--that they realize their attraction. Paris 1913. At the Theatre Des Champs-Elysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres "The Rite of Spring." Coco Chanel is mesmerized...But ...

Lifelines video In this drama, Christopher Walken is well-suited to the role of Nat, a con man and the estranged father of Flynn (Alessandro Nivola). In one day, Flynn loses his job, is dumped by his girlfriend (Amanda Peet), and learns his father is dying. With nothing else to lose, Flynn travels across the country to reunite with his father and drive him to a treatment that may save his life. Directed by Nigel Cole (SAVING GRACE), $5 A DAY also stars ...

Lifelines movie In a post-apocalyptic America where the once-picturesque countryside has become a desolate and violent wasteland, one man (Denzel Washington) fights to protect that sacred tome that could hold the key to the survival of the human race in this futuristic thriller from filmmaking duo Albert and Allen Hughes (FROM HELL and DEAD PRESIDENTS). Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, and Ray Stevenson co-star in the Warner Bros. production. Post-modern Western with a protagonist not unlike a Samurai Warrior. Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman ...

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Lifelines review This low-rent epic chronicles the adventures of some beautiful blonde Viking women in "the days when the world was young, and the gods had not yet abandoned the race of men." They sail off into the unknown in search of their missing husbands but instead encounter the dreaded Monster of the Vortex, a gigantic sea serpent that destroys their ship. Wet and confused, they wash up on a strange shore where they are enslaved by a group of hairy, unattractive ...