Foxtrot

The first thing to note about Samuel Maoz’s new film , Grand Jury Prize winner in Venice, is that it’s been eight years since the director somehow won Venice’s Golden Lion for his debut feature (2009). That too was a co-production, with most of the nations listed above taking part in that earlier cinematic manoeuvre. (In the interim, the United Kingdom has dropped out of the Coalition of the Willing, replaced by Switzerland, customarily neutral in war but never in finance.) There are numerous thematic echoes between and , despite the fact that, historically speaking, two different wars are being depicted. In , a major plot point is the death of a soldier known only as Jonathan. In , the misreported death of a central character, Jonathan Feldman (Yonaton Shiray), is