Mirren makes her terse, decisive, and ferociously alive, several steps ahead of the Israeli military officers in the room — a matriarch with the toughness of a buzzard.
during the three-week cataclysm of the Yom Kippur War, which shook Israel to its bones in the fall of 1973. As the actor stands before us, we can believe our eyes that this is the Iron Lady of Israel. For here is that frown, those beetle brows, that coarse wavy hair tied into a bun like challah bread, that pugnacious nose, that stare of implacability designed to bore a hole in its beholder.
Mirren makes her terse, decisive, and ferociously alive, always a step ahead of the Israeli military officers in the room — a matriarch with the toughness of a buzzard. There’s beenabout the casting of Mirren, since she is neither Israeli nor Jewish.
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