{"id":12524,"date":"2014-02-16T13:28:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T19:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=12524"},"modified":"2014-02-16T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T19:28:19","slug":"jerusalemites-complain-about-shooting-for-portman-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/jerusalemites-complain-about-shooting-for-portman-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalemites complain about shooting for Portman film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) &#8212; Residents of a haredi Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem reportedly have complained that filming for American actress Natalie Portman&#8217;s new film will take place there.<\/p>\n<p>The filming of &#8220;A Tale of Love and Darkness,&#8221; based on the book by Israeli author Amos Oz, began Tuesday in the Nahalot neighborhood, Haaretz reported. Portman, who appears as Oz&#8217;s mother, is making her debut as a director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe film shooting is set to take place on several sensitive streets close to synagogues and yeshivas, and the scenes being filmed should have been examined first to make sure they don\u2019t offend anybody\u2019s sensitivities,\u201d read the letter from residents to the municipality, the Times of Israel reported.<\/p>\n<p>Portman reportedly had coordinated the shoot with the Jerusalem municipality, but neither side informed the neighborhood residents. She received about $450,000 from the Jerusalem Development Authority to film in the city.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the same day actors wearing costumes from the 1940s-era  were seen walking in the neighborhood, graffiti condemning a \u201cforeign invasion\u201d appeared in the area, according to the Times of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Portman and her husband, French dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied, and their son reportedly will be in Israel throughout the filming.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Jerusalemites%20complain%20about%20shooting%20for%20Portman%20film\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,27],"tags":[5007,378,8790,8795,3253,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12525,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions\/12525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}