Foxtrot
A grieving Israeli family is drawn into a surreal reckoning with military secrecy, inherited trauma, and the costs of national self-protection.
Overview
A family's world is shattered by the news of a son's death, leading to a harrowing exploration of grief and reality.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Moderate
- melancholic
- surreal
- sardonic
- arthouse film night
- political cinema discussion
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film as a bruising, absorbing, and exceptionally well-acted sociopolitical drama with a powerful allegorical dimension.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Michael's family crisis and Jonathan's military experience function as an allegorical diagnosis of Israeli society's traumatic memory.
The isolated military checkpoint and its bizarre routines are rendered with absurd, dreamlike imagery.
The film depicts soldiers covering up the shooting of four Arab youths and frames military service as morally corrosive.
Michael and Dafna's response to Jonathan's reported death is shaped by Holocaust memory and Israel's survival wars.
Films like Foxtrot, and why
Lebanon
shared surrealist political allegory, military trauma, and formally inventive drama
The son of saul
shared antiwar perspective, moral unease, and psychologically intense family drama
The square
shared sociopolitical critique, grief, and unsettling surrealism within a national trauma narrative
Movie Details
- Director
- Samuel Maoz
- Release Date
- 2017-09-02
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 (222)
Cast
- Lior Ashkenazi
- Sarah Adler
- Yonatan Shiray
- Shira Haas
- Yehuda Almagor
- Karin Ugowski
- Etay Axelrod
- Dekel Adin
- Shaul Amir
- Gefen Barkai
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Foxtrot about?
- A grieving Israeli family is drawn into a surreal reckoning with military secrecy, inherited trauma, and the costs of national self-protection.
- What is Foxtrot like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Foxtrot as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Foxtrot violent?
- Somewhat. Ember rates the violence in Foxtrot as moderate.
- What did critics think of Foxtrot?
- Critics broadly praised the film as a bruising, absorbing, and exceptionally well-acted sociopolitical drama with a powerful allegorical dimension.
- Which films are like Foxtrot?
- Films with a similar feel include Lebanon, The son of saul, and The square.
- How long is Foxtrot?
- Foxtrot runs 113 minutes.
- Where can I watch Foxtrot?
- In United States, Foxtrot is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home.
