Israeli satire first screened at Cannes. It will get an arthouse run in the USA in March or April.
The critics loved it. It scores 86 at Metacritic and 87% on the Tomato Meter.
Following the October 7 attacks, Y., a pianist and comedian, is struggling to make his career a financial success, when he is commissioned to compose the music for a new national anthem, explicitly celebrating the demolition of Palestine.
Variety said:
A whirling, maximalist satire at once despairing and exuberant, subtle as a cannonball in its evisceration of the ruling classes and those who obey them, it’s both absurdist comedy and serious-as-cancer polemic: as grave as any film with an extended dance break to 2000s novelty hit “The Ketchup Song” can possibly be.
“Following the October 7 attacks” No wonder critics love it lol. Bibi likes it too.
This movie is extremely critical of the Israeli government (and society more generally).
It’s not likely that Bibi likes it. It is sharply critical of Israel and its government’s actions after October 7.
But that kind of explains why critics like it.
Is that a full Heche I see?
I thought so as well. At least a “near Heche.”