Bertaut
A fascinating political allegory
Our emotional memory from our past trauma, the biggest of which was the Holocaust followed by our survival wars, this memory is stronger than any current reality and logic. I am not justifying our behaviour. I am diagnosing it.
- Samuel Maoz; "Foxtrot is an allegory for Israeli society, trapped by its traumatic past" (Kate Taylor); The Globe and Mail (March 14, 2018)
Part satirical allegory, part surrealist indictment, Foxtrot finds writer/director Samuel Maoz working with similar themes as he did in Lebanon (2009); the ridiculous nature of war, the desensitisation of youth during wartime, the futility and meaninglessness of giving one's life in the service of one's country. However,...