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Two pairs of assassins are sent by a holocaust survivor’s son to bring the last Nazi for a show trial in Israel.

2001 Awards of the Israeli Film Academy………Best Cinematography, Best Music

Made.in.Israel.2001.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Language(s):Hebrew, English, Russian, German
Subtitles:English, Hebrew, French

The post Ari Folman – Made in Israel (2001) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Robin Wright plays an aging actress with a reputation for being fickle and unreliable, so much so that nobody is willing to offer her any roles anymore. She agrees to sell the movie rights to her digital image to Miramount Studios in exchange for a hefty sum and the promise to never act again. After her body is digitally scanned, the studio will be able to make movies starring her using only computer-generated characters.

20 years later, her character attends the Futurological Congress, which showcases Miramount’s new technology that allows people to transform themselves into animated avatars. In this mutable illusory state, they can become anything they want to be, be it a perfectly seductive goddess or their favorite action hero. Miramount wants to sell her image to punters, allowing them to transform themselves into her.

She agrees to the deal but has a crisis of conscience, and does not believe she or anyone else should be turned into a product. She publicly voices her views, enraging the hosts of the Congress. Shortly afterwards, the Congress is attacked by rebels ideologically opposed to the technology. Robin hallucinates her own execution.

The doctors decide that Robin is so ill, she must be frozen until a time when a treatment for her mental illness is found. She is revived many years later.

The.Congress.2013.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/0C65470070719F5/The.Congress.2013.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French

The post Ari Folman – The Congress AKA Kenes Ha-Atidanim (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This sweet-natured if somewhat bizarre examination of teenage angst, Israeli-style, proves yet again what a dearth of original ideas seems to plague American cinema; watching this freewheeling, occasionally surreal, study of a young girl with Cassandra-like prophetic powers, is an example of wholly original filmmaking, for better or worse. If it is occasionally uneven in tone, it is just as bracingly refreshing in that you’ve probably never seen anything quite like it before.

Anchored by two standout performances by Lucy Dubinchik as Clara, and Halil Elohev as her erstwhile boyfriend Tikel, Saint Clara begins with a very funny sequence surrounding the kids’ math class, where all students have managed to get a perfect score on a test. Even good cheating takes brains, exhorts their irate teacher, as the principal glowers in the background. What starts out as a perhaps routine interrogation into classroom antics soon takes on a surrealist element when it turns out this was no run of the mill peek at the answers fraud Clara had predicted the questions (and answers) correctly, something which elevates her into a special status among her classmates and, soon, to her entire community. Complicating matters is the fact that Clara’s powers may disappear if she falls in love, and her burgeoning relationship with Tikel therefore may have precarious consequences.

While there are some slight missteps in this effort (a somewhat abortive subplot involving shenaningans at the local seismographic institute, which has a minor payoff at the end of the film), overall Saint Clara is a wonderfully inventive and somewhat subversive comedy mixed with dramatic elements. While the supposed reason for Clara’s special powers (exposure to radioactivity maybe) might be handled by an American director with heavy-handed editorializing, helmers Ari Folman and Ori Sivan keep things light and hilarious with a running commentary on the horrors of nuclear fallout with cutaways to a patently absurd female newscaster.

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Language:Hebrew,Russian
Subtitles:Hebrew,English

The post Ari Folman & Ori Sivan – Clara Hakedosha AKA Saint Clara (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.