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By David Fear Published: August 21, 2013  Tired of the narco-
chic life and having to support his dead-end brother, a Parisian
drug dealer (Pio Marmaï) decides that moving to Israel will
magically solve his problems. First, however, the young man has
to make aliyah (the process of Jewish citizens immigrating to
the promised land) and do one last score. Director-cowriter Elie
Wajeman could have turned this story into a crime thriller or a
cross-cultural case study on exploiting one’s Jewish identity.
The fact that it commits to none of those routes suggests he’s
avoiding the obvious, but there’s no sense of what Wajeman is
after here. A character piece should have some sense of a
character’s who, what and why, right?  Time Out Critic  Dir.
Elie Wajeman. 2012. NR. 90 mins. Pio Marmaï, Cédric Kahn, Adèle
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