Gay Israeli-Palestinian love story alienates many

[davidinalameda]

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-09-14T115636Z_01_N13428424_RTRUKOC_0_US-LEISURE-CANADA-LOVERS.xml&archived=False

The deck seems stacked against Israeli filmmakers Eytan Fox and Gal Uchovsky, whose movie "The Bubble" held its international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this week.

The movie's theme of a gay love affair between an Israeli and a Palestinian alienates conservative audiences in Israel and abroad, and European left-wingers angry at Israeli attacks on Lebanon don't want to see Israeli films at all.

And the movie, which has a strong anti-war message, opened in Israel just weeks before the latest Israel-Hizbollah war, and when war started, the cinemas mostly closed.


"It's not an easy movie to make. It's not as though people in Israel say 'This is beautiful, wow we love it'," said Uchovsky, one of the writers and producers of the film, which his partner Fox directed. "And then you go to the world and the world hates you as well. It's hard."

[TlalocW]

1. Not nearly edgy enough

They need a scene where the couple is cuddling after love-making, and the Israelite is eating Pork Rinds, and the Palestinian is drawing a cartoon of Allah.

If we're going to piss off everyone, let's really piss off everyone!

TlalocW

[davidinalameda]

2. hehe

:rofl:

[sui generis]

3. so clearly somebody is confusing art with politics

again.

Someone send them a memo - the point of most art is to see beyond social and political boundaries, or to comment on them only as it supports the experience of the art.

BTW I also think that boycotting the olympics is absolutely despiccable and absurd for any country to do; same ideology. Olympics as a cultural event is supposed to move beyond political boundaries in its purest sense, and for politics to insist on boycotting a sports event such as the Olympics is anathema to that very idea.