WARSAW JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL
ETGAR KERET: BASED ON A TRUE STORY
Recommended. I've never read his short stories but I became an instant fan after the film. The story's non-linear the way his stories aren't and is as filled with humour as his writing is. Plenty of yarns in the film came from the writer himself. His mother was Polish and used to tell him he was not Israeli but a Pole in exile. The way Astrid Lindgren would tell her son bedtime stories she made up, Etgar's parents used to invent stories for him. His father's tales were centred around brothels, prostitutes, gangsters and drunks. He explained to the 5-year-old Etgar that drunks were people who needed plenty of liquids to make them happy. Later it turns out you never know what is true and what's a lie. But all the stories are positive and tell you something about human nature. Etgar Keret is a joyful person himself. Even though, like all Israelis, who have either killed or have had someone die, he saw his mate dead in the army, he stays positive and boisterous, constantly telling funny stories. He agreed for the documentary because he heard 'no' all the time when he was young and he finally found himself in the position to say 'yes'.
WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY?
Watchable. This documentary ought to be a thriller about how the secret archive survived the war. Instead it's kind of poetic. The ponderings on fear and hunger are too philosophical for my taste. The account of rapidly worsening conditions in the ghetto and the propaganda portraying Jews as a health hazard is more interesting.
OR (MY TREASURE)
Walked out. Daily chores of an ex-prostitute and her teenage children. With needless nudity - not even the prostitute's but her daughter's.
No comments:
Post a Comment