movie and a quick bite in Manhattan
Oct. 29th, 2007 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidfcooperThis evening we saw Kululush at the Israel Film Festival. The theater was half empty for the 5:15 show, and I was able to find a seat with an empty space in front of it where I could extend and elevate my feet on my folding foot stool.
“Kululush” centers on an ill-matched pair of brothers. Avi is a sad sack whose emotional life is invested primarily in the B’nei Yehuda soccer team, an aggregation as hapless as he is. Ronni once was the greatest scorer in B’nei Yehuda history but went to Europe to pursue his career; there, his compulsive gambling landed him in some unspecified trouble. His return to their slum neighborhood precipitates a series of crises, including the death of their grandmother, a toothless, beady-eyed nut who spies on the neighbors through a periscope erected on their roof, and the unearthing of an old family feud that has prevented Avi from wooing the girl of his dreams.
Adler handles all the complex action adroitly, but there is a lingering sour taste in the screenplay by Shaul Bibi and Ofer Tabechnik, a bile-filled bitterness that undercuts the film’s attempts at humor and the potential warmth of the relationships between the brothers, their grandmother and their neighbors.--(from Jewish Week review)
The grandmother reminded us of elderly Mizrahi women in Beit Shemesh and Sderot when we were Sherut L'Am volunteers in 1981-82. We enjoyed being able to follow the dialogue in Hebrew and noting the discrepencies between the spoken original and the translated subtitles.
Afterward we stopped at the Columbus Circle Whole Foods and got Indian food at the buffet before getting on the subway and going home.
“Kululush” centers on an ill-matched pair of brothers. Avi is a sad sack whose emotional life is invested primarily in the B’nei Yehuda soccer team, an aggregation as hapless as he is. Ronni once was the greatest scorer in B’nei Yehuda history but went to Europe to pursue his career; there, his compulsive gambling landed him in some unspecified trouble. His return to their slum neighborhood precipitates a series of crises, including the death of their grandmother, a toothless, beady-eyed nut who spies on the neighbors through a periscope erected on their roof, and the unearthing of an old family feud that has prevented Avi from wooing the girl of his dreams.
Adler handles all the complex action adroitly, but there is a lingering sour taste in the screenplay by Shaul Bibi and Ofer Tabechnik, a bile-filled bitterness that undercuts the film’s attempts at humor and the potential warmth of the relationships between the brothers, their grandmother and their neighbors.--(from Jewish Week review)
The grandmother reminded us of elderly Mizrahi women in Beit Shemesh and Sderot when we were Sherut L'Am volunteers in 1981-82. We enjoyed being able to follow the dialogue in Hebrew and noting the discrepencies between the spoken original and the translated subtitles.
Afterward we stopped at the Columbus Circle Whole Foods and got Indian food at the buffet before getting on the subway and going home.
