Lemon Tree (2008), one of the two opening films in 2008 Taipei Film Festival, is a story with really simple structure: two houses and a lemon grove between them. The story becomes more interesting when each house's owner is revealed: a Palestinian widow, who has grown up with the grove, and Israeli Defense Minister who just moved in with his wife. The location of the grove is equally important to the story: it is adjacent to the Green Line border between Israel and the West Bank.
Stories about the conflict between Israel and Palestine are almost mundane to the people living in that area. Director Eran Riklis was drawn to this particular one because of the symbolic nature of lemon tree, which is best described by the folk song in the 1960s:

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.

Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys discovering metaphors in a movie that is easy to associate with.

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