Golda
Golda
Directed by:
Guy NattivScreenplay:
Nicholas MartinCinematography:
Jasper WolfComposer:
Dascha DauenhauerCast:
Helen Mirren, Liev Schreiber, Camille Cottin, Ed Stoppard, Rotem Keinan, Dominic Mafham, Ben Caplan, Mark Fleischmann, Lior Ashkenazi, Daniel Ben Zenou (more)VOD (4)
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Golda is a ticking-clock thriller sharing the intensely dramatic events, high-stake responsibilities, and controversial decisions that Meir - also known as the ‘Iron Lady of Israel’ - faced during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Her actions, in impossible circumstances, would ultimately decide the fate of millions of lives. (Transmission Films)
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Helen Mirren's make-up distracted me at first, but her always reliable acting was thankfully not lost underneath. Moreover, Golda is a biopic made the way I like it, as the ever-so-slightly controversial personality is represented not from childhood to old age, but during the Yom Kippur War, when perhaps all of her positive and not-quite-so-positive qualities are on full display. The script copes skilfully with a large cast of characters that I had no trouble telling apart, thanks to the excellently chosen and, with the exception of the impeccable Liev Schreiber, also not entirely familiar actors. It resorts to cliché only very rarely indeed, and doesn't even need to show sweeping battle scenes to tell us what a terrible thing war is. A surprisingly good film. And with great music!
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