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Little Jerusalem is a french film of genre Drama directed by Karin Albou released in USA on 27 january 2006 with Fanny Valette
Little Jerusalem (2005)
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Add to a movie listLittle Jerusalem (French: La Petite Jérusalem) is a 2005 French drama film directed by Karin Albou. Albou's film depicts how the conflict between the rational and the irrational drives the relationships within a Jewish family living in the outskirts of Paris.
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Laura, played by Fanny Valette, is a Jewish philosophy student who has put Kantian reasoning above all emotions, including love. In the film, Laura's interaction with Djamel, an Muslim coworker played by Hédi Tillette de Clermont-Tonerre, exposes how Laura struggles to live by her rationalist principles as she succumbs into her feelings for Djamel. However, as Laura admits to feeling affection for Djamel, she is upset when she learns that they cannot have a life on their own because Djamel cannot afford to confront his family. Western philosophy has also made Laura very skeptical of the teachings of the Torah, undermining her relationships with her Orthodox Jewish family. Her family consists of her mother, her sister Mathilde (Elsa Zylberstein), her devout brother in-law Ariel (Bruno Todeschini), and her young nieces and nephews.Actors
Fanny Valette
(Laura)
Elsa Zylberstein
(Mathilde)
Bruno Todeschini
(Ariel)
Michaël Cohen
(Éric)
Aurore Clément
(Woman at Mikva)
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