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Live and Become, Thursday 26th May 2016

Live and Become, showing Thursday 26 May 2016 at the Cranleigh Film ClubIsrael/France 2005. Director Radu Mihaileanu.

Certificate 12

A strange, ethnic rite of passage concerning an Ethiopian boy refugee from the Sudan, who pretends to be Jewish in order to obtain asylum in Israel.

He is taken in by a kindly, liberal Israeli family but becomes torn over the knowledge that he is living a lie.

The director is fascinated by North African culture and demonstrates a keen eye for ethnic and social contradictions which give us perspective on what is usually regarded as a political problem.

153 minutes.

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