Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAlex ekes out a living as a small-time drug dealer in Paris. He’s 27 and single but any chance he has of ever having a happy existence is scuppered by his walking disaster of an older brother Isaac who he is constantly bailing out for the substantial debts he has somehow amassed with some … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGerman Philosopher Hannah Arendt and her husband the Marxist poet/philosopher Heinrich Blücher, both Jews, managed to escape the French Detention Camp where they had been imprisoned and lived out the rest of World War 2 in New York. They quickly established themselves, and Arendt scored many prestigious teaching positions …. she was the first ever … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 2006 at the start of the Second Lebanon War, Tel Aviv film school graduate Yariv Mozer was called up as Army Reservist Officer to serve at the Front. He decided to take his video camera along with the idea that over the next few weeks he would taping how the war progressed but he … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn a glorious opening scene Rivka a middle aged Jewish mother and Shira her teenage daughter are pushing a shopping cart around a busy supermarket cruising for men. Not just any men, but a particular one that the Matchmaker has arranged to be available for a ‘viewing’. He’s standing in the cold meats section (although he … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAs I left the movie house somewhat dazed I simply couldn’t get the phrase out of my head about ‘sons bearing the guilt of their fathers’. Google tells me this originated from the Old Testament where it is paraphrased quite a few times. The trouble is as so often, the Bible is confusion personified and … Continue reading
