You have to see HBO’s “Recount.” It’s an eye-opening and entertaining look at all that Florida election recount drama. The acting is amazing (Laura Dern as Katherine Harris is spot-on and hilarious) and the story, well, for me this film was a shocking and disapointing lesson in US politics and judicial loop holes.
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In “The Lemon Tree,” Israeli director Eran Riklis delivers a new perspective on the Middle East in the form of a profoundly moving fictional microcosm of the Israel/Palestinian struggle over land, security and displacement.
A Palestinian woman’s lemon trees become a point of contention when the Israeli defense minister moves in next door. Located along the Green Line between Israel and the occupied West Bank, the grove has been dutifully tended to by her family for generations. The defense minister fears that a terrorist could come across the border through the grove, inspiring his campaign to tear it down. The battle over the grove’s preservation is eventually taken to Israel’s High Court of Justice.
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