Film & Food Night
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Join us for a showing of “Lemon Tree”
with a delicious middle eastern buffet at
Fairuz Restaurant on Sunday 1st June
Buffet starts at 6pm, film starts at 7.15, £10 for the buffet
Drinks not included and this will be a non alcoholic event.
Lower Ground Floor, Fairfax House, Merrion St, Leeds LS2 8JU
Lemon Tree” (2008) by directed by the Israeli filmmaker Eran Rilkis is intended as a modern reworking of the Old Testament story of Ahab, the King of Israel, who covets the vineyard of his neighbour, Naboth the Jezreelite. In this case, however, Ahab is Israel’s defence minister. He has moved into a new house adjoining a lemon grove, a middle-aged Palestinian widow’s only source of income, and insists that the trees be cut down for security reasons. She fights back, engaging in a hopeless battle, though unlike Ahab’s wife, Jezebel, the minister’s wife sympathises with the handsome widow (Observer 14.12.08). Certificate: PG , Running time: 106 mins