In 1981, when Pope John Paul II named Jean-Marie Lustiger archbishop of Paris, Lustiger felt conflicted, even burdened: “For me, this nomination was as if, all of a sudden, the crucifix began to wear a yellow star,” Lustiger told a reporter at the time.
Ilan Duran Cohen’s riveting new French-language film, “The Jewish Cardinal,” explores the reasons behind this startling statement, spotlighting Lustiger’s intense struggle with his complex dual identities as a Catholic and a Jew. The drama will screen as the closing-night film of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival on May 8. (The festival is a program of TRIBE Media Corp., which produces the Jewish Journal.)
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