A Film I really want to see when it comes to Chicago.
Time-Out new york interview with Etgar Keret
Time Out New York interviews Keret about $9.99… Why are people always looking for easy answers to unanswerable questions?
I think the film isn’t about people looking for easy answers as much as it is the fact that people gave up on looking. Because I think that sometimes the yearning and the search is some sort of a meaning. And the difference between the character who wants to order the meaning of life and the other people around him is that you can say he’s naive and unrealistic, but he didn’t give up. He’s obsessed with this question. The other people are already executing their plan Bs and Cs – they’ve already given up on whatever they once believed in …
via EK News – Time-Out new york interview with Etgar Keret.
Reviews of $9.99: Entertainment Weekly, Village Voice, NJ.com and NYT
Here are some USA reviews of $9.99The investment is worth it for a movie ticket to an original universe of characters in search of contentment
Etgar Keret is sometimes described as Israel’s Woody Allen, but this hugely popular humorist is more fanciful and morbid in his evocation of cultural schlemielery. Co-written with Keret, Tatia Rosenthal’s stop-motion animation $9.99 adds a measure of creepiness to Keret’s dark whimsy.
Rosenthal gives the entire production a lovely, fine-art look, and a real feeling that we’re looking at life as it’s lived – even if there are angels involved, and everyone is made of modeling clay. How often do you see that even in live-action films?
The Israeli writer Etgar Keret possesses an imagination not easily slotted into conventional literary categories. His very short stories might be described as Kafkaesque parables, magic-realist knock-knock jokes or sad kernels of cracked cosmic wisdom. When such vignettes are strung together into a feature — as in “Jellyfish” (2007), which he directed with his wife, Shira Geffen, and now in Tatia Rosenthal’s “$9.99” — they become even more elusive and strange.
via EK News – Reviews of $9.99: Entertainment Weekly, Village Voice, NJ.com and NYT.
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