from Oron Shamir
A particularly tough week in local and global politics, from the US presidential elections that were not as close as we were told to the record-breaking lawlessness in Israel. Luckily there is a cinema, although even that is sometimes questionable. For example, throughout the month Neta Shoshani’s “1948 – remember and forget” should be screened, in all kinds Centers throughout the countrybut there are those who try to sabotage even ban its screening. In my eyes this is beyond crazy, mainly because the film was already screened a year ago and more, it is also dangerous. I want to go to all the screenings, actually, but if I manage to make it to even one, it will be an achievement for me. This is because the month is packed with film festivals and events, whether Cinema Darom returns to Sderot on Sunday 11/10, and has the honor of judging the student competition, so see you there, and straight to the Araba Film Festival which starts on Thursday 11/14 and a dedicated post will be dedicated to its program soon. Due to the load of festivals I will try to mention them in the relevant weekly section, we will not have enough to cover everything, and we are still enjoying the gay festival that will last until Sunday. Ofer has already reported from there, and I hope everyone is following Or’s Oscar project. And a little about the six films that are joining the offer of the cinemas today.
Amelia Perez (Emilia Perez) – straight from the gay festival, so I highly recommended it, Jacques Audiard’s film makes waves wherever it is screened. At the Cannes Film Festival it ended up with a pair of awards, the Jury Award (kind of third place) and the Actress Ensemble Award. That means Selena Gomez won (jointly) an award for acting, but that’s not the weirdest thing that happened in the world this year. The one who leads the story is actually Zoe Saldana, or Saldania as she wants to be called from now on, in the role of a lawyer in Mexico. She receives an offer she cannot refuse from a local drug kingpin – to help him disappear and re-emerge as a woman, the fulfillment of his life’s dream. This is how Emilia Perez is born, played by Carla Sofia Gascon, who gets what she wants but her past doesn’t let her go. Gomez is the ex-wife of the cartel boss, and Mexican actress Adriana Paz is the film’s fourth winner and appears late in the plot. What else should you know about this trans crime melodrama? This is a musical for all intents and purposes, with lots of musical numbers and songs in a variety of styles. Yes, yes.
La Cucina (The Kitchen) – you can find more Mexican characters in Alonso Ruizplasios’s film (“Whites”), and only God knows why the Hebrew title alludes to the Italian language. The word “la cocina”, the kitchen in Spanish, is actually spoken out loud in the film and by a character whose mother tongue is not there, so I can only assume that the film distributors in Israel do not always watch their own films. Or just don’t differentiate between European and Latin American languages, I really didn’t understand this piacheco. The film behind the completely normal name tells about a kitchen in an all-American grill restaurant located in Times Square in Manhattan, zigzagging between characters. Ana Diaz is the clueless new employee who introduces us to a chaotic world, in black and white with occasional flashes of color, Raul Briones is a seasoned cook and rioter, Ronnie Mara is an American waitress who has more pressing things than work, and Oded Fahr is the manager of the place who finds out that he is missing Hundreds of dollars in yesterday’s cash register. By the way, in the translation it is “Adar Per” or something like that, my heart goes out to the translators who probably don’t have time to check for mistakes. “Amalia Peretz” also has quite a few.
Operation Santa (Red One) – there are also movies in English this week, although this one is also shown dubbed into Russian so you can decide to continue the sequence. Actually it’s an American movie with mostly stars, trying to preempt the arrival of Christmas. Or save Christmas, but this time in the form of an action comedy and an absurd fantasy. Chris Evans plays a bounty hunter who is also the best tracker in the world, so he is kidnapped to the North Pole by Lucy Law. She assembles a rescue team to find and safely return Santa Claus (JK Simmons), who was kidnapped just before the holiday due to reasons. They are not really explained in the trailer, or even shown who the thunderers are, except for Kiernan Shipka. The good guys also have Dwayne Johnson and a talking polar bear (Nick Carroll), so I have a feeling it will be fine. Jake Kasdan, who worked with The Rock on the new “Jumanji” films, directed from a script by Chris Morgan (creator of “The Fast and the Furious”) and Hiram Garcia, who worked as a producer on both brands. Here’s a picture from the movie that proves it’s real, excluding Santa with muscles, snowmen with muscles, and muscles with muscles.
be goodrich (Goodrich) – another American film I hadn’t heard of until this week, despite big names. Michael Keaton stars as Goodrich, and it’s not that easy to be him: his partner enters rehab and leaves him to take care of their young children, something he’s never excelled at. For evidence, he turns to his adult daughter from his first marriage, played by Mia Kunis, to help him with the parental task that has fallen upon him. Of course, on the way she confronts him for never knowing how to be the father she needed, and I have a feeling that he will indeed learn to be the father of all his children no matter which mother and at what age. A film by Haley Myers-Shire, a child actress (“Father of the Bride”) who became a director-screenwriter (“Everybody’s Coming Home”), with Andy McDowell and Carmen Ejugo.
A deadly wedding (Till Death Do Us Part) – a very difficult week in the field of Hebrew names for films, as you can imagine, but since there are really endless films with foreign names I can almost understand the distributors this time. Especially because I almost confused this American film from the previous year with a newer one from Indonesia. After all, it can’t be that a movie with a score of 3.8 in the IMDb would really be distributed in Israel, right? The trailer contains the worst gameplay I’ve seen in a long time, but don’t judge a movie by its trailer. And in the movie, a bride who runs away from her wedding is hunted by the groom and his seven groomsmen and fights back. Mainly with sharp objects but also quite a few bare fists and kicks to sensitive areas. The cast is not very well known outside the world of hit movies (in the coat), for example Jason Patrick as the abandoned groom, Cam Giganda as his right hand man and Natalie Burn as the bride. Timothy Woodward Jr. directed, from a screenplay by Chad Law and Shane Dax Taylor. I have no idea who these are either, but I’m really happy that a guy named Chad worked on the film, it suits me.
past tense 3 (Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3) – we’ll end with an Indian film originally called “Bulbulia 3” and it’s a shame they didn’t translate it that way, but extra points for the too high level (which we forget). Despite serious competition this week, this is of course the most disturbed premise and trailer in this week’s section, a complete emotional journey At 3:30 minutes viewing. The film itself is about two and a half hours, as per the best tradition, and it continues the plots of Ru Baba (Kartik Aryan, because there are no Indian names), a charlatan who pretends to be an exorcist and thus gets everything he wants, from objects to women. Until he takes on a mission in an enchanted castle, and finds himself in front of a witch/field played by Vidya Balan who mainly proclaims “I am Anjulica!”, but everyone is afraid of Boa. More in the film by Anis Bazmi, who also directed the previous ones in the series: songs, dances and a theory of connection between ecclesiastical priests.
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