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Nadav Lapid Explains The Thinking Behind His Controversial Cannes Hit ‘Yes!’: “I Don’t Understand The World Anymore” – Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Nadav Lapid explains the thinking behind his controversial Cannes hit ‘Yes!’: “I don’t understand the world anymore” – Karlovy Vary Film Festival
A provocative, intensely sensory and dryly witty study of modern-day life in Tel Aviv, it is likely the first film by an Israeli to confront the elephant in the room: the ongoing war in Gaza. At the center of the story is a jazz musician called Y, a bohemian, artsy type who is fed up with his hand-to-mouth existence and so agrees to a lucrative commission, writing an upbeat song to inspire national pride in the wake of the Hamas terror attacks that took place on October 7, 2023. Lapid has lived in Paris for the last three and a half years, and, as an outsider now, his film manages the extraordinary feat of being able to see both sides of the situation.
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