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The Other Son

2012 · 105 min

A quiet, emotionally charged drama that makes you sit with the characters' moral dilemmas and the painful pull of family and identity.

Directed by: Lorraine Lévy
Genres: Drama
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk

Overview: Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.

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Directed by: Lorraine Lévy
Genres: Drama
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
family
politics
faith
loyalty
Places: big city
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
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Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Lorraine Lévy
Written by: Noam Fitoussi, Lorraine Lévy, Nathalie Saugeon
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Pascal Elbé, Jules Sitruk, Mehdi Dehbi, Areen Omari, Khalifa Natour, Mahmoud Shalaby, Bruno Podalydès
Cinematography: Emmanuel Soyer
Runtime: 105 min
Country: France
Languages: French

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