Natalie Portman's Passion Project 'Tale of Love and Darkness' Splits Cannes Critics

Natalie Portman lifts her Hebrew-language directorial debut from Israeli scribe Amos Oz's 2002 memoir of the same name that chronicled his upbringing in Jerusalem during Israel's early days as a state. After she met Oz and his wife, whom she plays in the film, Portman spent eight years writing the film and securing funding to keep it in Hebrew. Her namesake should be enough to secure the film distribution—but does this herald a promising directorial career? Cannes reviews, below, have been mixed. While The Guardian compares Portman's efforts to Angelina Jolie's "In the Land of Blood and Honey," also a personal passion project and also lukewarmly received, other writers like...

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