Just In: Shoshana review: Superb acting and espionage flavours in a timely tale
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Shoshana | Official Trailer | In Cinemas February 23 Few coincidences could be as bitter on the tongue than for Shoshana to have its UK premiere on October 7. Just as director Michael Winterbottom and his cast were preparing for the event, news came in of the massacre unfolding in the Jewish state.That attack and the subsequent catastrophe in Gaza sharpen the arrival of this historical drama about love and radicalisation amid Israel’s violent birth. Interwar Tel Aviv is a liberal city within British-mandated Palestine. With worrying murmurs from Germany, rival Zionist factions there grow impatient for a larger slice of the Promised Land.Shoshana (Irina Starshenbaum), a beautiful and independent journalist, aspires to her late father’s ideal of Jews and Arab...
