‘The Other Son’ -about the Palestinian-Israeli Divide

“The Other Son,” a new film by Lorraine Lévy, shares its premise with“The Prince and the Pauper” and Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors,” though its mood is more melodramatic than humorous. The idea of infants switched at birth, each growing up as somebody else, is an old and potent one in literature. The possibility of such a mix-up happening in real life evokes both fascination and horror and raises stark, primal questions of identity. Is who you are determined by the genetic fingerprints of your biological inheritance or by the influence of your environment?