Nadav Lapid
Who Can Tell of the Heroic Deeds of Israel?: Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher
By Jay Kuehner | 12/17/2014 | CS61, Features, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Interviews, Top Ten Films 2014
By Jay Kuehner. Films are often described as being “poetic,” but beyond the suggestion of a certain undefined lyricism, it is not entirely clear just what this means. Unrequited love, for example, might be given supple expression through an ambient absence, or the cruel passage of time might be suggested by the fixity of the…
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By Olivier Pere | 09/28/2011 | CS48, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Spotlight
By Olivier Père It’s been a long time since a first feature has displayed such masterly direction as Nadav Lapid’s Policeman (Hashoter), such a sense of connection to the films of Godard, Bresson, Fassbinder, Kubrick, and Haneke, and giving those more perceptive viewers such a conviction of witnessing the arrival of an outstanding filmmaker while…
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