简介:A comic and episodic satire, the film uses improvisation to illustrate the clash between fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas' "Hallelujah the hills" (1962), it's an authentically Israeli satire, an openly rebellious and individualistic expression that poked fun at the sacred myths of earlier zionist films. The technique of film within the film is used to portray cinema as reflection of the imagination, a miracle based on dreams and fantasies that take on concrete characteristics - parallel to the miracle of Israel, the dream that has become reality. Although not a commercial success, its importance is beyond any measure, though it remains a unique experiment, boldly uncommercial and subversive, out of any context in that patriotic, ideological epoch. A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the port of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he opens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and opens a competing business across the way. The two make a living by selling to each other. As there is nothing there, they decide to create a world out of their imagination. They build a cardboard film set, which slowly takes on real dimensions- the buildings turn to concrete, people come to audition for parts in the "film" (cinema verité style, with Zohar mocking viciously the pretensions of the "actresses") and builders come to build appartment buildings (mocking the glorification of concrete and "heroic" settlement). In one sequence, Arab actors come and ask the filmmakers turn positive to negative, and they're given the role of pioneers who plow the land and sing zionist songs. The imagined world of the filmmakers becomes so real eventually they lose sight of the thin line between fantasy and reality. Along the way there are also many references to other films and genres: the samurai flicks of Kurosawa, westerns, the pop films by Richard lester, the meal scene from Tom Jones and many others. The film was made by a bunch of (very talented) friends Zohar gathered, and they shot it with their own funds, as a “collective flick”, another aspect of it that sets it apart from the rest of the production in the country.
佐伊·达奇///乔纳·豪尔-金///露比·克鲁兹///雅布其·杨-怀特///乔什·塞加拉///罗伯特·朗斯特里特///阿尔登·马林///克里斯汀·思莱蒙///艾伦·麦克里奥德///朱丽亚·斯维尼// Jeremy Turner //汤米·杜// Laura Shatkus / Vivian Norman / Cora Crain / Rivver Manen //加里·牛顿// Rose Lane Sanfilippo / Verda Davenport / Megan Mock/
克里克·威尔逊// Bryan Spellman / Kelly Kidd / Carla Kidd / John Marrs / Keon Joel //莱恩·斯莱特// Brian Christensen / Scott Bolger / Darren Eisenhauer / Alisha Griffin / Sai Piña / Austin Brooks / Tom Dragt / Cliff Owens / Patrick A. Grover / Will Grimes/
克劳迪奥·桑塔玛利亚///索尼娅·贝加马斯科///安娜·费泽蒂///马西米利亚诺·罗西// Andrea Giannini / Marta Giovannozzi //毛里齐奥·特塞// Beniamino Marcone //塞尔吉奥·罗马诺///比亚吉奥·佛雷斯蒂里///安东尼奥·扎瓦特里// Jerry Mastrodomenico / Beatrice De Mei/
杰西·麦特卡尔菲///特里斯汀·梅斯// Micah Giovanni / Anthony Palermo / Leesa Neidel //崔佛·艾因霍恩///迪伦·穆尼// Royce Adkins / Tom Bonello / Chris Cleveland / Michael J. DelMauro / Mike Dusi / BreeAna Miyuki Eisel / Logan Garretson //大卫·莱特曼// Eduard Osipov/