We begin in Paris with the “rebirth” of Yoav, a disoriented Israeli fleeing a country that has fled him, who in his disillusioned madness turns to a new nation to recreate himself. The film “Synonym” ...

The opening moments of Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms” have a sinister, almost Kafka-esque absurdity. Yoav (Tom Mercier), a young man who has forsaken his Israeli identity for a French one, wraps himself in ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

The opening moments of Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms” have a sinister, almost Kafka-esque absurdity. Yoav (Tom Mercier), a young man who has forsaken his Israeli identity for a French one, wraps himself in ...

The opening moments of Nadav Lapid’s “Synonyms” have a sinister, almost Kafka-esque absurdity. Yoav (Tom Mercier), a young man who has forsaken his Israeli identity for a French one, wraps himself in ...

Not Rated. In French and Hebrew with subtitles. At Kendall Square Cinema. A strange beast, indeed, Nadav Lapid’s French-Israeli entry “Synonyms” gives us a strapping Israeli ex-soldier protagonist ...

At the heart of the obliquely thrilling“Synonyms” lies an existential question: Can we ever truly change who we are? Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid grapples with thishead-on in the story of Yoav (Tom ...