![]() However, I live there and I may see this city everyday then, I do not need to waste my time during two (long!) hours in a movie theater, for this kind of movie. Yoav is sometimes filmed with a basic camera held by a person obviously suffering from epilepsy: right, left, up, down. Yoav plays music with a machine gun, on a French song interpreted by the american band Pink Martini. ![]() Yoav impregnates himself, idly and condescendingly, from the customs and traditions of the Parisian natives to fill the void of his own life. ![]() " and he arrives in Paris to work within the embassy of (guess what!) Israel. Yoav runs away from Israel because Israel is, I literally quote, "méchant, obscène, hideux. The very final scene is a bit of an obvious metaphor, certainly, but it gave me a smile.įilm undoubtedly directed by pretentious high school students, during an internship. The film is neither dumb nor unwatchable, mostly due to a highly physical central performance by the lead actor who is on screen almost the entire time, but I found it difficult to give it my full attention. Around that there are other sub-plots and minor characters thrown in, but few of them can be believed in any longer than it takes them to gaze in the distance and pout (if French), or put someone's head in an arm-lock (if Israeli). Will they, maybe, fall for each other and have a short wild affair, before his Weltschmertz and uncouth behaviour finally cause her to turn her back on him while hiding a sob? Oh, the suspense. In fact, the central plot strand is a bog-standard, hoary, clapped-out French melodrama trope, as our unpolished, virile, tortured hero meets an artistically minded posh girl with a bland, rich boyfriend. Sadly, the film doesn't find anything novel to explore in this setup. ![]() On its face it looks like a provocative and interesting film could have been made, throwing a half-tame, disaffected, confused ex-Israeli soldier into the sophisticated, mindful and permanently leisured society of Paris-in-French-Movies (a place not to be confused with either Paris-in-US-Movies, or Actual-Paris where I once lived). ![]()
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