Interview with the Director of Footnote
Joseph Cedar, the director of Footnote, is interviewed in the New York Times. Tomorrow the five nominees for the category of Best Foreign-Language Film will be announced.
Q. What made you want to explore this particular world of Talmudic scholarship?
A. In the beginning I was working with a story about a father and son and the confusion that occurs because of an award. I was looking for a field for them to be in and came across the Talmud department. It changed the whole direction of the story and gave the film its shape and content. It’s a great department and I spent time gossiping with people from the inside. It’s a place that has no limits because of the nature of the people, whose stubbornness is extremely dramatic. Or tragic. I don’t know. But I was attracted to these people.