In the aftermath of this slaughter, the number of suicide bombings against Jewish citizens increased. Baruch Goldstein, an American-born Israeli, killed 29 Palestinians worshiping at a mosque and wounded 125 others. The film cogently recalls other events that were taking place in Israel during this contentious period. We do know that sexual rejection plays a role in motivating some young men to become killers, but this idea remains too sketchy in Zilberman’s film.īy far the most important incitement to the assassination is the indirect encouragement Yigal receives from Orthodox rabbis and scholars who argue that murder and revenge can be justified.
There are suggestions that her Ashkenazi family feels that Yemenite Israelis are inferior to those from European backgrounds, but this intriguing theme might have been more fully developed. He is experiencing conflicts with his parents, struggling to keep up with his studies, trying to cement his relationship with a girlfriend (Daniella Kertesz) who is not quite as committed as he is. When we first meet Yigal (well played by Yehuda Nahari Halevi), he seems to be going through many of the difficulties that would plague college students anywhere in the world. His new film, written with Ron Leshem, is edgier and more difficult but confirms that he is a director to watch. Several years ago, director Yaron Zilberman made A Late Quartet, a thoughtful film about the disbanding of a distinguished string quartet, starring the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Christopher Walken and Mark Ivanir. This will be a challenging film to entice audiences to see, but it seems especially timely in an era of growing fanaticism and hatred. This TIFF world premiere tells the story of Yigal Amir, the young law student who killed Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, dooming the peace process that the Israeli prime minister had sought to implement and changing the history of the Middle East.
A rare look into the mind of an assassin, Incitement provokes and disturbs.