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Black Notebooks: Ronit

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Based on family archives and excerpts from the trilogy created by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz, BLACK NOTEBOOKS: RONIT invites us into the intimacy of a Jewish-Arab family, a family of uprooted exiles, in an imaginary story where a brother and sister revisit the past and the present to defy an implacable future. Ronit Elkabetz was a beloved and critically acclaimed star of Israeli cinema (LATE MARRIAGE, THE BAND’S VISIT, GETT). Elkabetz's versatility, beauty and magnetism prompted the New York Times, in 2008, to dub her "Israel's Meryl Streep," while other international critics compared her to an Almodóvar heroine. She co-directed three films, including GETT, with her brother, Shlomi Elkabetz. In BLACK NOTEBOOKS: RONIT, his love letter to his sister and to cinema, Shlomi chronicles the making of their film GETT, as the siblings are faced with Ronit's illness. Determined for Ronit to stay alive they embark on a journey, traveling the world with their film and attempting to change destiny. Ronit Elkabetz died in 2016 at the age of 51.

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Jordan Bond Film Threat 06/01/2023
6/10
The director succeeds in telling the story of his sister in an unfiltered, brutally honest, and respectful way. Go to Full Review Jason Flatt But Why Tho? A Geek Community 01/04/2023
7/10
Black Notebooks: Ronit is either an intimate portrait of a brother’s grief or a behind-the-scenes look into the work and lives of Ronit and Shlomi Elkebetz. Whichever way you come into viewing the film, you’ll come out of it emotional and moved. Go to Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 11/10/2022
A heartfelt, focused and intimate documentary that effectively humanizes Ronit Elkabetz, but it's not thorough or illuminating enough, so it remains incomplete. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Shlomi Elkabetz

Director

Ronit Elkabetz

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Miriam Elkabetz

Self

Eli Elkabetz

Self

Menashe Noy

Self

Simon Abkarian

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Synopsis Based on family archives and excerpts from the trilogy created by Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz, BLACK NOTEBOOKS: RONIT invites us into the intimacy of a Jewish-Arab family, a family of uprooted exiles, in an imaginary story where a brother and sister revisit the past and the present to defy an implacable future. Ronit Elkabetz was a beloved and critically acclaimed star of Israeli cinema (LATE MARRIAGE, THE BAND’S VISIT, GETT). Elkabetz's versatility, beauty and magnetism prompted the New York Times, in 2008, to dub her "Israel's Meryl Streep," while other international critics compared her to an Almodóvar heroine. She co-directed three films, including GETT, with her brother, Shlomi Elkabetz. In BLACK NOTEBOOKS: RONIT, his love letter to his sister and to cinema, Shlomi chronicles the making of their film GETT, as the siblings are faced with Ronit's illness. Determined for Ronit to stay alive they embark on a journey, traveling the world with their film and attempting to change destiny. Ronit Elkabetz died in 2016 at the age of 51.
Director
Shlomi Elkabetz
Screenwriter
Shlomi Elkabetz
Distributor
Panorama Films
Production Co
DBG / deux beaux garçons, Unité
Genre
Documentary, Drama
Original Language
Hebrew
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 4, 2022, Limited
Runtime
1h 40m