NATALIE PORTMAN'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

Natalie Portman’s directorial debut "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" got off to a good start over the weekend for Focus World in two New York and Los Angeles locations. Portman stars in The Hebrew-language drama, grossed $36,000.

The story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell, become the stories we live.