Helen Mirren

Camille Cottin

Liev Schreiber

Lior Ashkenazi

Rami Heuberger

Rotem Keinan

Dvir Benedek

Ellie Piercy

Henry Goodman

Ed Stoppard

Dominic Mafham

Ohad Knoller

Emma Davies

Mark Fleischmann

Daniel Ben Zenou

Olivia Brody

Zed Josef

Jaime Ray Newman

Jonathan Tafler

Sara Matin

Muneesh Sharma

Kit Rakusen

Sumit Chakravarti

Sam Shoubber

Peter Watson

Shivani Rawat

Andrew Karpen

Jasper Wolf

Arad Sawat

Etienne Newton

Jean Carlos de Blas

James Chambers

Sofia Ferrara

Steve Robinson

Boadicea Shouls

Alex Molden

Karen Hartley-Thomas

Sinéad Kidao

Tom Russell

Claudia Cimmino

Andrew Munro

Ariadne Divaris

Celia De La Hey

Jasmine Daniels

Andrew Boswell

Julie Goldstein

Christopher Figg

Jamie Diner

Andrew Butler

Emma Sudall

Anna Vincent

Emma Meaden

Malcolm Ritchie

Edward Chiswell Jones

Agnieszka Kocinska

Rob Allott

Amy Grudniewicz

Gavin Glendinning

Robert Whitehouse

Sam Trowsdale

Pancsi Puts

Chloe Hermiston

Benjamin Bailey

Libby D'Arcy

Chiara Bove Makiedo

Jessica Hurcombe

Kevin Bell

Bram van Woudenberg

Gracie Mila

Warwick Drucker

George Thompson

Dan West

Erkan Cogalan

Louise Nathanson

Daniel Fallik

Michal Omelczuk

Amy Dolan

Sasha Tanvi Mani

Simon Bysshe

Oliver Durnford

Robert Mellody

Carlo Boffa

Tim Haslam

Kent Sanderson

Saskia Thomas

Sabira Stanisavljevic

Shaun Mitcheson

John Schoonraad

Joshua Davies

Trevor Murphy

Vidya Krishnamurthy

Dushiyan Piruthivirajah

Daniele Alfano

Yael Ben Cnaan

John Paul Docherty

Arabella Cristerna

James Lyall

Joseph McDonald

Amanda Cox

Suzanne Baron

Jake Kuhn

Celine Rattray

Leah Lawry-Johns

William Bashford

Sarah Dagnell

Lucy Pugh-Bevan

Lee Edwards

Matthew James Howe

Stewart Homan

Gina Lafferty

Ian Hutchinson

Jane Hooks

Guy Nattiv

Nicholas Martin

Michael Kuhn

Alex Johnson

Jordan Lee Brown

Orit Azoulay

Dascha Dauenhauer

Suzi Battersby

Ashra Kelly-Blue

Jack Lynch

Drama

History

Golda

Piccadilly Pictures

Big Entrance

Embankment Films

Lipsync Productions

Qwerty Films

United Kingdom

United States of America

English

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Brent Marchant

Paying homage to a country’s great leader is certainly a worthy and noble undertaking, but, when it comes to director Guy Nattiv’s would-be tribute to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), the film comes up far short of what it could have been. The film focuses on Meir’s handling of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when the nation was on the brink of collapse from “surprise” (though strongly anticipated) attacks by Egypt and Syria, largely as retribution for their territorial losses in the 1967 Six-Day War, with significant support from the Soviet Union. The picture presents a detailed by-the-numbers account of the conflict, including Meir’s involvement with her top military advisors and with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Liev Schreiber). Granted, it’s important to understand this background to provide context for the stage on which this drama plays out. However, for a release called “Golda,” one would think that its focus would be on the title character, as a biographical sketch that just happens to be set during wartime. Instead, because of this, Meir is almost reduced to a supporting player in a much wider cast of characters playing out the specifics of the conflict (at least in the first half). There’s virtually no back story about the PM as an individual, providing little insight into who she is and how that impacts her approach to handling the combat. To its credit, the film improves in the second half, especially when it starts presenting Meir’s story from a somewhat more personal perspective. By that point, however, the filmmaker has already lost his audience for what this offering could and should have been. Viewers come away from this one knowing little more about the woman who was a national hero in a time of crisis than what they would likely find in history books and documentary films. In fairness, Mirren and Schreiber deliver fine performances, disappearing into their respective roles and making this production look better than it actually is. But that’s not saying much given what seems to be the genuinely sincere intent that was behind this release. Unlike Meir, this film simply doesn’t rise to the challenge, and that’s unfortunate considering who it is ultimately trying to honor. And, because of that, it should come as no surprise why this offering has ended up in the late summer stash of cinematic also-rans.

CinemaSerf

I suppose this might have been a little bit more interesting if I had known more about the 'Yom Kippur" war that threatened the still quite fledgling state of Israel. With Egypt and Syria massing huge numbers of troops and tanks on the borders, it falls to the Israeli prime minister Golda Meir (Dame Helen Mirren) to galvanise her hugely outnumbered population and to work with her legendary defence minster Moshe Dayan (Rami Heuberger) to stave off this overwhelming force long enough for her to convince American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (an almost unrecognisable Liev Schreiber) and his boss Richard Nixon to brave the threats from the Soviets and the Saudis and come to her aid. What's annoying about this film is the astonishing lack of substance to the thing. Much effort has gone into Dame Helen's prosthetics, however much of the rest it seems to repetitively follow her walking about from place to place - with her famous white shoes - whilst lighting and smoking a cigarette. We know she is ill, and we also see from her frequent visits for treatment that the adjacent mortuary is testifying to the increasing horror of this invasion. However there's virtually no detail as to who she is/was, how she got the job, how her intelligence was attained, how her skilful combination of diplomacy and courage all helped to save her nation from annihilation. It's all just presented in a second-rate documentary style that was as unconvincing as it was shallow and episodic. Sure, it illustrates well the perils of war - but, to be honest, it could be any war where one nation was up against a larger, more powerful, one. To do justice to this story and this woman, it needed greater focus and much more detail. This is nobody's finest work here, sorry.

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