The first words in Wrestling Jerusalem are “It’s complicated,” and Aaron Davidman doesn’t pretend to simplify the subject with his first-person look at politics, animosities and hope in the Middle East. But in translating the one-man show to the screen, actor-turned-director Dylan Kussman has unnecessarily complicated the material, overcompensating for its stage-bound nature with busy crosscutting between a San Francisco theater and the Mojave Desert (subbing for the Negev).
Channeling the perspectives of 17 characters based on people he interviewed (some are invented), Davidman has an unmistakable talent for inhabiting personalities, male and female, across a range of ethnicities, ages...
Channeling the perspectives of 17 characters based on people he interviewed (some are invented), Davidman has an unmistakable talent for inhabiting personalities, male and female, across a range of ethnicities, ages...
- 5/10/2017
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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