Why did it take decades for a biopic to be made about Israel’s first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir? Filmmaker Guy Nattiv, who boarded the “open assignment” project we…
stirring up any more controversy, particularly in its homeland of Israel. All the warts are out there per the director about the female prime minister and the casualties of 1973’s Yom Kippur War, which she presided over; that face-off with Egypt and Syria which went down in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.The uncensored docs from Meir’s government hearing meetings –moments portrayed in the film–have largely cleared up her name.
As far as all the noise goes on Mirren playing Meir, Nattiv defends, “I’m Jewish, I’m Israeli, both of my grandparents are holocaust survivors. There’s no one more sensitive than me when somebody is portraying a Jew in the wrong way.”
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