月亮上的洞

   爱坤资源网 提供本片资源  A comic and eisodic satire, the film uses imrovisation to illustrate the clash between fantasy and reality in real life. Although conceived in the style of Mekas#39; quot;Hallelujah the hillsquot; (1962), it#39;s an authentically Israeli satire, an oenly rebellious and individualistic exression that oked fun at the sacred myths of earlier zionist films. The technique of film within the film is used to ortray cinema as reflection of the imagination, a miracle based on dreams and fantasies that take on concrete characteristics - arallel to the miracle of Israel, the dream that has become reality. Although not a commercial success, its imortance is beyond any measure, though it remains a unique exeriment, boldly uncommercial and subversive, out of any context in that atriotic, ideological eoch.\n \n A new immigrant, Tzelnik, arrives at the ort of Jaffa. He goes to live in the Negev desert where he oens a kiosk in the middle of nowhere. Mizrachi comes along and oens a cometing 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, eole come to audition for arts in the quot;filmquot; (cinema verité style, with Zohar mocking viciously the retensions of the quot;actressesquot;) and builders come to build aartment buildings (mocking the glorification of concrete and quot;heroicquot; settlement). In one sequence, Arab actors come and ask the filmmakers turn ositive to negative, and they#39;re given the role of ioneers who low 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.\n \n Along the way there are also many references to other films and genres: the samurai flicks of Kurosawa, westerns, the o films by Richard lester, the meal scene from Tom Jones and many others.\n \n 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 asect of it that sets it aart from the rest of the roduction in the country.