Ahmed’s knee
An Israeli filmmaker whose mother is dying of cancer goes to screen his new film at the public library of a town in the interior of the country and faces the limitations imposed by the government. “Ahed’s Knee” is a less angry film (at least from a stylistic point of view) than Nadav Lapid’s previous film, “Synonyms”, whose protagonist wanted to abdicate his Judaism at all costs, but this self-fiction full of cheek it’s still working. in the execration of the nature of the state of Israel, the policies of its government, its contempt for culture and artists and attempts to reduce its freedom of expression, and Lapid does not spare even the main character, who almost destroys life of the young librarian who welcomes and admires him. Bitter and desperate to the point of revolt, “Ahed’s Knee” is symptomatically revealing of the hypercritical and strongly negative point of view of a sector of the Israeli elites about the situation and the future of the country.
tralala
Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu (“To paint or to make love”, “Love is a perfect crime”) sign this “naturalistic” musical about a traveling Parisian musician (Mathieu Amalric) who goes to Lourdes in search of a mysterious girl, and once there, an old woman mistakes him for her long-lost son. He then assumes his identity and meets his family, as well as all of his problems and secrets. The baggy, unshaven format chosen by Larrieu in “Tralala” has little originality in musical terms (a genre that was never the French stronghold), the story is extravagant without being particularly appetizing, the actors sing little or poorly (Amalric, then, is terrible) and most of the songs add nothing to the excellent reputation of the French chanson. Any comparison with the films of Jacques Demy is wrong.
No
Jordan Peele’s new film is set in an isolated valley outside Los Angeles, where laconic and self-absorbed OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluya) and father Otis (veteran Keith David) own a ranch where they raise and train horses. for movies and television. series, the only one of its kind owned by blacks, as they proudly say, next to a “cowboy” theme park owned by Ricky “Jupe” Park (Steven Yuen) and his wife. After an unusual event occurs that results in the death of his father (a shower of coins, keys and other everyday objects), OJ and his sister Em (Keke Palmer), a talker who also has a part in the family business, discover a alien. presence that hides in a cloud in the sky of the region. “Nope” was chosen as the movie of the week by the Observer.
Source: Observadora
