Review of A Tale of Love and Darkness

Nice to see Natalie Portman but this film is terribly depressing. What could have been an exciting film about the founding of Israel descends into a story of a disturbed mother of Amos Oz and her intellectual but dull husband and the life of their son which tells us very little, only that he would be bookish as he indeed became. I think that those making this movie lost a chance for something significant. I cannot imagine why they did what they did.