A visually beautiful burlesque fantasy about a fountain-of-youth pill and its effects on Getz, a down-and-out Tel Aviv night-club singer. After taking this much sought after pill, Getz becomes the epitome of youthful energy, and therefore a teen idol, a symbol of beauty and youth, up to the cathartic ending of the movie.

Perlov- The pill.avi

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https://nitro.download/view/BB504A89CEA9A7D/Perlov-_The_pill.avi

Language(s):Hebrew
Subtitles:hard English and French subs

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In the 1990s David Perlov returned to the format of the filmed diaries he produced between 1973 and 1983, organized in a different way, closer to the cinematographic essay, and divided into three thematic chapters, “Sheltered Childhood”, “Routine and Rituals” and “Back to Brazil”. In the first, we follow the childhood of his grandchildren; in the second, the political routine of Israel, the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the rise of Benjamin Netanyahu and various rituals that make up the country’s daily life; in the third, Perlov returns to Brazil, remaking, for the last time, his trips to Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte.

Part 1: A Sheltered Childhood
A cinematic poem bordering on home movie. David Perlov films his family, emphasizing the mutual gaze between his subjects and the camera, and hinting at the abysmal gap between his grandchildren’s easy-going life and his own childhood in Brazil.

Part 2: Routine and Rituals
In the second part of his Revised Diary Perlov’s camera takes him from the private to the public territory. At the center of the film is the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; but soon it becomes clear that the film transcends the objective recording of Israeli actuality, and rather interprets it, almost recreates it. The everyday and the ritual interweave and at moments become one.

Part 3: Back to Brazil
Like in Diary, Revised Diary ends in Brazil. Its climax is a hesitating, painful visit to Perlov’s childhood home in the city of Belo Horizonte, towards which he is drawn as if against his will. At the heart of this chapter there is a long drive in the only remained streetcar in Rio de Janeiro: “a streetcar named cinema, a streetcar named reality, a streetcar named memory” (Uri Klein, Ha’aretz).

DVD Label: Instituto Moreira Salles
DVD9
DVD Format: NTSC
DVD Audio: AC3, 2.0
Program(s): None
Menus: Untouched
Video: Untouched
Audio: Untouched
DVD extras: None
DVD runtime: 02:40:00

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Language:English, Hebrew and Portuguese
Subtitles:Portuguese

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Interview with David Perlov
© Uri Klein, Haaretz, Sep. 29 1993
When you made In Jerusalem did you consciously plan to make a film
that was different, of a kind we’d never seen before?
“Yes, I was aware of the difference. In the film I interview an old man, a
religious photographer, who tells me, ‘No one took photographs in the Holy
Land before me. I was the first.’ I, too, said this while I was filming, but only to
myself. I had a feeling that I was doing something decisive for myself and also
for Israeli filmmaking.
Firstly, because of the freedom in which I was creating, and second, due to
the formalism, if that is the word, the striving for a form in documentary film,
something that was not common here. And that film really did serve its
purpose, among my friends, too, who were studying at the time or had begun
to make films.
To this day, when the film is screened from time to time, people come up to
me and use the words you used, that it is ‘a type of film we have not seen
before,’ and they mostly express their wonder that it was made so long ago.
Immediately after that film, however, I wanted to be freed from the bonds of its
formalism, I wanted to work with the thing itself, to go to the street.”
After all, this is a land that opposes changes, that still holds credibility
as a supreme value – whether regarding feature films or documentaries.
Were you at all afraid of the reactions, or did you not think about how it
would be received, working only out of need, or perhaps even naiveté?
“No, no, not naiveté. I wanted to break something. It was a bit dreamy of me. I
wanted to make an exemplary film. I did not want to make an antithesis to the
films made in Israel, or not just to them, but rather to the whole mentality,
which around that time forbade the Beatles to visit here.
“I was a big believer in the possibility of change and in the support I would
receive from those who came after me.
“Of course the film encountered problems. It clashed with the official
establishment approach. After all, it was about Jerusalem, the capital of Israel,
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with everything it involved, and I filmed at street level. I have a tendency to
shoot the “below”. I came with a certain innocence but also sobriety. I lived in
Paris for a few years before immigrating to Israel in 1958, and there I saw
documentary films by Alain Resnais and Georges Franju and Agnes Varda,
films commissioned by the French establishment but made with total freedom.
I believed that this is how it should be here, too.
It was wonderful for me to make a film about Jerusalem, because it was
different from the Israel I had known until then. A courtyard was a courtyard,
children were children. I did not understand the symbols, apart from that of the
eternality of Jerusalem, and I loved that myth. I knew that my camera was
trained very low, and that the figures I would film would look directly at it.
There were people in the studio who said I was crazy. ‘How could he let
people look directly at the camera and even wave to it?’
“I included old film clips in my movie, ones that had been made in Jerusalem
at the beginning of the century. There were shocked reactions to that, too.
And on top of all these, there was also the story of the beggars, which led to a
clash with committees of the Foreign Ministry, the Jewish Agency, and the
Film Service. In the end the film even reached Levi Eshkol.”
What was so outrageous that the prime minister had to decide whether
the film could be screened or not?
The problem began with the poet Zelda, who appeared in the film, and until
then was almost unknown. She was a wonderful personality, and it was she
who mentions in the film that the Messiah may come from among the beggars
of Jerusalem. So I filmed the beggars of Jerusalem, and they, the
establishment, wanted to remove that scene, because they apparently
thought that it was not complementary to Jerusalem and would not look good
abroad. I could not agree to that, because the story had tremendous ethos:
even the lowliest of the paupers could be the Messiah.
“After all, the country was socialist and those who opposed the film were
bearing a banner: There are no beggars in Jerusalem. There are no barefoot
in the country. To the establishment’s mind, they brought them to Israel and
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gave them clothes and shoes. So how could I go about shooting the
exceptions?
“In short, they wanted me to forget the film and proposed that I make another
one. Eventually the matter reached Levi Eshkol, and he approved the film. He
said something very nice: ‘Although there are enough beggars in the film for
two movies, even so, it is worthy of screening.’”
The big shock of In Jerusalem was that it was the first Israeli
documentary film with such tangible cinematic presence and
involvement.
“That was the intention. I wanted real cinema, and I felt that I was making
something happen. My camera at the time was no less innovative than the
one in Diary, which focused on one apartment, while in this case the camera
wandered all over Jerusalem.
“In Jerusalem is truly a document. The Old City is presented in it as
something invisible that is viewed through the holes in the wall that divides the
two parts of the city. The moment of the photography through the cracks in
the wall is perhaps the strongest moment in the film. The children are peaking
both at the Old City and at the camera, and both of them are present and
noticed at the same time.
“When I arrived in Jerusalem to make the film,” continues Perlov, “five years
after I had immigrated to Israel – the first two of which I spent on a kibbutz – I
felt for the first time that I had come to the place where I was born. There was
no ideological exaltation of ‘We are here!’ Jerusalem, as opposed to the rest
of the country, was eternal, but it also had the simplicity of eternality. I think
that in that combination lies the film’s secret: its aesthetic is diary-like, realistic
and its editing is lyric-suggestive. Its simplicity was raised to a lyric level, if
that is what it is called. I also insisted on a profusion of pictures. I wanted the
film to have as much pictoriality as possible.
“After the film, I abandoned this over pictoriality. I did not want to be bound by
it. But I was bound anyway. No one ordered films from me, as I relate in
Diary.”

https://nitro.download/view/EFE8A3FC0858361/In_Jerusalem.avi

Language(s):Hebrew
Subtitles:Hard English subs

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