Traduire is a 2011 French independent underground experimental documentary art film directed by Nurith Aviv. It was released on DVD by Éditions Montparnasse [fr], as part of a boxset, also including Misafa Lesafa (2004) and Langue sacrée, langue parlée (2008).[1]

Traduire
DVD cover
Directed byNurith Aviv
Written byNurith Aviv
Produced bySerge Lalou
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byEffi Weiss
Music byWerner Hasler [de]
Production
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Distributed byÉditions Montparnasse [fr]
Release date
  • 19 January 2011 (19 January 2011) (France)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryFrance
Languages
  • Arabic
  • Catalan
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Italian
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Yiddish

Synopsis

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The film, the third in a trilogy, containing Misafa Lesafa (2004) and Langue sacrée, langue parlée (2008), contains conversations with translators of Hebrew works into different languages. Among the interviewees are Brest, France-based Sandrick Le Mague, who translates theological texts into French, Boston-based professor Angel Sáenz-Badillos, who translates medieval poetry into Spanish, Acre-based Israeli-Arab novelist, screenwriter, and, journalist, Ala Hlehel, who translates the plays of Israeli playwright Hanoch Levin into Arabic, Malakoff-based professor Yitskhok Niborski [he; ru], who compiles a Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary, Barcelona-based professor Manel Forcano i Aparicio [ca; de; es; he], who translates the contemporary Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai into Catalan, Tel Aviv-based Israeli poet, Sivan Beskin, who translates the contemporary Israeli poet Leah Goldberg into Russian and Lithuanian, and, Berkeley, California-based professor Chana Bloch, who translated into English the works of contemporary Israeli poets Yehuda Amichai and Dahlia Ravikovitch.[2][3]

Reception

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Critic Jacques Mandelbaum opined that "Aviv films these encounters carefully, taking time to listen to each translator in the half-light of their offices, bringing surprisingly passionate ideas to the surface" and that the film "finds room in its erudite enterprise to explore sensibilities."[4]

References

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  1. ^ Aviv, Nurith (18 May 2011). Traduire (DVD) (in French). Paris: Éditions Montparnasse. OCLC 763624784. 3346030022979. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  2. ^ Anderman, Nirit (3 February 2012). לדבר קולנועית: ראיון עם הבמאית והצלמת נורית אביב [Speaking Film: An Interview with Director and Cinematographer Nurith Aviv]. Haaretz (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv: M. DuMont Schauberg. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  3. ^ Katz, Lisa (8 July 2011). "Rendering a Reborn Tongue". Haaretz. Tel Aviv: M. DuMont Schauberg. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  4. ^ Mandelbaum, Jacques (1 February 2011). "Traduire – Review". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
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