<em>Foxtrot</em> Is a Dreamlike Interrogation of War
Samuel Maoz’s award-winning film has drawn equal parts praise and controversy in his home country.
by David Sims
Feb 27, 2018
3 minutes
At the start of , a knock at the door leads to a frightening sight for Dafna (Sarah Adler): two soldiers, standing impassively, bearing what can only be bad newsthe death of her son. Dafna screams and cries, and the soldiers immediately move to sedate her; in the next room, her husband, Michael (Lior Ashkenazi), sits staring into space like a zombie. The setting is an upper-middle-class apartment in Tel Aviv bedecked with expensive furniture and dark, nightmarish-looking modern art, and the way
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