Review: 'Advocate' reveals a rebel with a lost cause
by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Jan 03, 2020
2 minutes
Lea Tsemel has been called a rebel with a lost cause and a whole lot worse. But as the intimate, powerful "Advocate" demonstrates, she lives up to the film's title in the purest sense of the word: She stands up for people. It's who she stands up for that causes all the controversy.
As a Jewish Israeli attorney who has tirelessly defended Palestinians who have
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