“For a flag they are willing to live and die… provided one educate them to it.” The text which opens Land of the Little People (Medinat Hagamadim) is cited from Theodor Herzl, one of the founders of modern Zionism. As a programmatic statement of intent, the quote’s provenance is as important as its content. This is a film…
In World War Z a zombie apocalypse was required to motor a globe-trotting trip from South Korea to Israel, whereas all it takes for Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s Big Bad Wolves to make the same journey is the filmmakers’ genre savviness and a wily renationalisation of ideas. For much as Keshales and Papushado’s…
Rabies (Kalevet) first published as part of my FrightFest 2011 coverage for Little White Lies. “What kind of psychopath builds a trap you can’t open?” asks Ofer (Henry David) at the beginning of Rabies, after Tali (Liat Harley) has stumbled into a lockless chamber dug into the earth. There are woods, young lovers a-camping, nocturnal darkness, and…