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A Borrowed Identity
2014 1h 44m Not Rated
Drama
7.2
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A Palestinian-Israeli boy named Eyad is sent to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem, where he struggles with issues of language, culture, and identity.
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Directed By
Eran Riklis
Written By
Sayed Kashua
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ZDF/Arte
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Cast of A Borrowed Identity
Tawfeek Barhom
Eyad
Ali Suliman
Salah
Yaël Abecassis
Edna
Laëtitia Eïdo
Fahima
Norman Issa
Jamal
Razi Gabareen
Young Eyad
Daniel Kitsis
Naomi
Michael Moshonov
Yonatan
Loai Nofi
Wajdi
Nitay Dagan
Student
A Borrowed Identity Reviews
RogerEbert.com
Godfrey Cheshire
"A Borrowed Life" emerges as one of the most engaging and polished of recent Israeli films, and as such is well worth the attention of anyone interested in the cultures and issues it limns.
Detroit News
Tom Long
A fine blend of the universal - teen love, rebellion, tragedy - and riveting specificity, while also working as sharp social critique.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
"Identity" demonstrates its boldness not with stylistic originality but with political acuity.
Arizona Republic
Randy Cordova
The film feels quietly truthful, as it focuses more on small, pivotal moments than big ones.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
Unusually delicate, sometimes funny, often dramatic, and ultimately profound.
Washington Post
Stephanie Merry
Under Riklis's direction, the film's first act lulls the audience into a sense of familiarity, before plunging into a darker reality. The effect is shattering.
Newsday
John Anderson
Riklis is a director of enormous grace and handles the various character dynamics with sensitivity.
The Dissolve
Keith Phipps
It uses moments of dark humor to great effect in the midst of an otherwise-sober film.
Slant Magazine
Clayton Dillard
It lacks a formal rigor to match its thematic heft, preferring a digestible naturalism that serves its plot points in plain, uncomplicated sight.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"A Borrowed Identity" starts out nice and easy but don't be fooled. This is a soft-seeming film about a hard-edged, difficult subject, an Israeli film that offers a picture from life's other side.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Director Eran Riklis (Lemon Tree) balances an endearing nostalgia for the period -- particularly its counterculture -- with cutting observations of the minority experience
New York Times
Andy Webster
Impressive acting (especially from Mr. Suliman and Yael Abecassis as Yonatan's mother) enhances this thoughtful drama, directed with a sure hand by Mr. Riklis, a film veteran.
Village Voice
Marsha McCreadie
Traditional coming-of-age films like A Borrowed Identity don't often come from Israel, which is one of the film's points.
Seattle Weekly
Brian Miller
[A] steady, sober, unsurprising picture.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
An excellent cast, a solid script, and a few surprises about the little-known circumstances of life as an Arab-Israeli citizen make A Borrowed Identity an absorbing film.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A touching and inspiring film by an Israeli director that fosters the spiritual practice of open-mindedness.
San Francisco Examiner
Anita Katz
It is an engaging coming-of-age story, a thoughtful call for dialogue and peace, and a never heavy-handed depiction of everyday indignities.
SF Weekly
Sherilyn Connelly
A Borrowed Identity borrows from various genres without finding one of its own.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
With Israeli Arabs. . .rarely seen in mainstream films, it creatively explores crossing psychological boundaries exacerbated by language, education, class, culture, racism.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
Without playing down hostilities that Jews and Arabs in Israel feel toward one another, this film is tightly structured, holding out hopes that co-existence between two peoples who are essentially cousins is possible.
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