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The Other Son
Directed by
Lorraine Lévy
2012
1h 45m
PG-13
Drama
7.3
79%
79%
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Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
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Cast of The Other Son
Emmanuelle Devos
Orith Silberg
Pascal Elbé
Alon Silberg
Jules Sitruk
Joseph Silberg
Mehdi Dehbi
Yacine Al Bezaaz
Areen Omari
Leïla Al Bezaaz
Khalifa Natour
Saïd Al Bezaaz
Mahmoud Shalaby
Bilal Al Bezaaz
Bruno Podalydès
David
Ezra Dagan
Rabbi
Tamar Shem Or
Yona
Tomer Offner
Ilan
Noa Manor
Ethel
Shira Naor
Lisa
Marie Wisselmann
Keren
Gilles Ben-David
Director of the hospital
Yuval Rozman
Military doctor
Lana Ettinger
Female Officer
Loai Nofi
Jamil
Majd Bitar
Tarik
Nir Avrashi
Ministry officer
Ori Lachmi
Checkpoint soldier
Samantha Amouyal
Pretty ice cream customer
The Other Son Reviews
Detroit News
Tom Long
The intention here is plain - we are all human, we can all be family - but Levy weaves the mix of identity crises, cultural mingling and common ground slyly.
Newsday
John Anderson
Levy handles with aplomb what could easily have been a messy mix of emotions and politics.
New York Post
Farran Smith Nehme
"The Other Son'' is played with warmth and conviction by its cast. But it's also a little pat and toothless, set in an Israel where not even the notorious border crossings seem that difficult.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Lvy generally succeeds in creating a compelling, humanistic family drama, even if some viewers may reject the movie's final note of optimism.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
"The Other Son" is such a disarming feat that cynics will get left at the checkpoint.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
"The Other Son" is a case of good intentions overwhelming the inherent drama - quite simply, political correctness got the best of it
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
Even though [Levy] executes with a light touch, it tends to feel a little simplistic given how deep-seated and persistent the Palestine-Israel conflict is.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Ms. Lvy is rescued from her maudlin, preachy tendencies by the skill and sensitivity of the actors, who turn a wobbly parable of tolerance into a graceful and touching story of real people in a surreal situation.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
The movie is shameless and simple yet solemn at the same time.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A parablelike melodrama with obvious symbolic meaning.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
A thoughtful bridging of a cultural divide.
AV Club
Noel Murray
The Other Son's setup is too contrived, carried along by conversations that are either confrontational or artificially elusive.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
This beautifully photographed drama is well-played throughout with great conscience without becoming heavy-handed.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I wonder how this story would play out if they were both still quite young.
Slant Magazine
Chris Cabin
The filmmakers focus almost entirely on matters of displacement of cultural identity in scenes that are at once passably engaging and stunningly shortsighted.
Austin Chronicle
Louis Black
The actors are all excellent, the storytelling compassionate, and the overall sense one takes from the film is more humane than political.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
It is easy to imagine other, darker, results after the opening accident, but Levy's film, pitched firmly as if it were the only possibility, makes it seem so.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Transcends its switched-at-birth premise to a degree that's surprising, considering that the well-worn plot militates against surprise.
NPR
Ella Taylor
It's hard not to feel carried along by the generously conciliatory spirit that warms The Other Son ...
Village Voice
Simon Abrams
Ham-fisted dialogue and clichd characterizations trump genuine chemistry in The Other Son, a contrived Franco-Israeli drama about two 18-year-olds, an Israeli and a Palestinian, accidentally switched at birth.
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