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Storyline
The Pope died and the conclave has been called for. Four candidates were chosen. However, before the voting, the four candidates are killed one by one. The killer leaves clues that seems to say that he/she is from the Illuminati. Strangely though, the Illuminati was long thought to be extinct. Who is the mastermind? Who revived the Illuminati? What do they want? |
Backdrops
The Director
Ron Howard
Ronald William "Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American actor, director and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later as the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years. He made film appearances such as in American Graffiti in 1973 and while starring in Happy Days he also made The Shootist in 1976, as well as making his directorial debut with the 1977 comedy film Grand Theft Auto. He left Happy Days in 1980 to focus on directing, and has since gone on to direct several films, including the Oscar winning Cocoon, Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon, A Beautiful Mind and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. In 2003, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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User Reviews
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The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field
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With a leading role in "Angels and Demons," the lovely Ayelet Zurer has made the A-list. But long before her part in the watered-down pap brought to us by the genius of Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman, she starred in a fabulously psychedelic, genre-bending mystical thriller-romance, "The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field."
I have no idea where or even if one might find Yossi Somer's 1998 film, but keep your eyes peeled for it. The predestined attraction of the main characters sizzles as they descend deeper into realms of which they are unaware and unprepared for. It's a brilliant film by a talented director, and a fascinating early glimpse of one of 2009's newest stars.
(side note: if you were lucky enough to see the Israeli TV series, "Florentene," you might recognize Zurer's love interest, Yehezkel Lazarov)
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reviewed by linkingarts (Filmaster.com) on the 28th of May 2009
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I thought this one would work better as a film than The Da Vinci Code. It does, slightly. Fortunatly the movie cut some of the twists from the book, that in my opinion are predictable, however the movie still suffers from the unbearable length of the plot. Scene in the fountain was good though.