giovedì 29 dicembre 2022

August: A Moment Before the Eruption - Avi Mograbi

con il solito sguardo tragico e umoristico insieme Avi Mograbi mostra cosa succede in Israele normalmente, il razzismo e l'odio aperto verso i palestinesi, il trattamento della polizia verso di loro.

spesso come dice il titolo quelli che sembrano momenti apparentemente tranquilli non sono pace, ma prodromi di un qualche conflitto ad alta intensità.

buon Avi Mograbi a tutti - Ismaele

 

QUI il film completo, con sottotitoli in italiano

 

Avi Mograbi, a filmmaker known for both his strong political opinions and his sense of humor, decides to document the anger and unrest he witnesses in his homeland of Israel during August of 2001. Using only a video camera—no script, no cast, no crew—Mograbi tries to make sense of the complex problems facing Israel. A deeply personal film, August: A Moment Before the Eruption is, like its director, at turns tragic and comic.

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A blackly comic rumination on the state of mind of Israel in summer 2000, the acerbic and eerily prophetic “August” captures a snapshot of the Jewish nation just prior to the hostilities that broke out two months later. Even those accustomed to director Avi Mograbi’s signature variations on the “personal diary” format may find “August” disconcerting, ending as it does with an implied psychological and cinematic meltdown. Half documentary, half intentionally fake psychodrama, film alternates man-in-the-street vignettes with increasingly bizarre confessional speeches made directly to the camera, the two modes merging pointedly as pic progresses. Winner of the peace prize at Berlin fest, piece features a bleak insider portrait of Israel that will appeal to the director’s fans, but is unlikely to gain him new adherents on this side of the Atlantic. Arthouse or indie cable play may depend on changes in the American perception of the Middle East.

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