The cigarette smoke drifting through his latest movie is a metaphor, director Guy Nattiv freely admits.
It represents “the fog of war, which prevents you from seeing 1 meter ahead of you,” he says. With its hazy tinge and sense of claustrophobia, “Golda” revolves around the choices one woman made during a tense period for Israel.
Golda Meir was the chain-smoking prime minister of the country on Oct. 6, 1973, when Egyptian and Syrian forces attacked and caught her unprepared. As the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War approaches, Nattiv explains how he mostly skipped the battle scenes and instead drew on horror tropes and his love of paranoia thrillers to offer a new look at the controversial leader (played by Helen Mirren).
