At the heart of the obliquely thrilling“Synonyms” lies an existential question: Can we ever truly change who we are? Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid grapples with thishead-on in the story of Yoav (Tom ...

You won’t find an existential crisis more maddening and mesmerizing than the one Yoav (Tom Mercier) is having in “Synonyms,” a drama from director Nadav Lapid that bristles with outrageous artistic ...

Beginnings and endings are as critical to films as takeoffs and landings are to aircraft, and this one begins particularly well. (It ends less well, though with considerable power.) A young man, ...

It's not long into Synonyms before Yoav (Tom Mercier), a young Israeli in Paris, get caught with his pants down. After leaving his apartment's front door ajar while bathing, he finds his clothes ...

Tom Mercier and Louise Chevillotte in “Synonyms.” Photo courtesy of Kino Lorber Israeli director Nadav Lapid is not surprised that his country’s ministry of culture, a notably conservative agency, ...

Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Nadav Lapid’s Berlin Film Festival winner 'Synonyms.' By Scott Roxborough Kino Lorber has picked up North American rights to Nadav Lapid’s Berlin ...