'A Borrowed Identity' shows life in Israel from an Arab's view

posted on: Jul 3, 2015

“A Brrowed Identity” starts out nice and easy but don’t be fooled. This is a soft-seeming film about a hard-edged, difficult subject, an Israeli film that offers a picture from life’s other side.

Directed by the veteran Eran Riklis (“The Syrian Bride,” “Lemon Tree,” “The Human Resources Manager”), “A Borrowed Identity” deals with the situation of the roughly 10% of the state of Israel population (1.617 million people, we are told) who are Palestinians.

Key to the telling is screenwriter Sayed Kashua, who with his novels, memoirs, television show “Arab Labor” and a column in the newspaper Haaretz was for many years the main voice speaking for that community.

Source: www.latimes.com