In “Yes,” an Israeli Filmmaker Charges Israel with Self-Satisfied Brutality

In “Yes,” an Israeli Filmmaker Charges Israel with Self-Satisfied Brutality

That delirious excess befits the essence of Lapid’s method, which is a fusion of fiction with indigestibly and irreducibly nonfictional elements. That method was also evident in his previous feature, “Ahed’s Knee” (2021), in which a filmmaker (likewise referred to as Y) confronts censorship in Israel’s cultural bureaucracy while contending with his mother’s grave illness….

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