Today (Thursday) "I love you Charlie" will be released in cinemas, the film by Shai Kenato, who directed and wrote the script together with Haim Barbi and Roi Idan.
The film stars, among others, Michael Aloni, Alon Abutbol, Noa Kirel, Eliad Nahum, Adi Himmelbloi, Oral Tzbari, Moshe Forster, Lior Dovdevani and more.
At the center of the plot is the story of Guy, a young and ambitious TV director, who is sent to film a reality show together with a strange and problematic camera crew at the home of the head of a brutal crime family, where a successful pop singer who is unaware of the host's identity is staying.
This is a plot that is based on a true story, roughly.
Shai Kenato, photo: Netti Levy
"It's far from the truth," I honestly laugh when I try to find out how much of the moments from real life entered the script, "but it's true that the main idea for the film really came from the show 'Once in a Lifetime' that I directed, a reality show where we took celebrities and put them in the opposite place from the one they know. Aviv We put Gefen in the settlement, Yael Goldman in Alferon's house, Biggie and Shorty in the house in Caesarea, and there as a director I got to experience this experience from the side of the camera and get to know the people from the other side. To this idea I also added the selector that I directed - there is also a glimpse of someone who was not educated Or grow up in a certain world and end up in another."
from the movie.
"The idea came from 'Once in a Lifetime' which I directed", photo: courtesy of United King Films
"The film is about Guy, a director with a scale of values, thought and philosophy of life that brings him together with Charlie, a kind of father figure, the head of a crime family who becomes his mentor. When they meet, he opens his mind to him, and in this process they both change."
I mean Guy is not you.
"No, he's different from me" (laughs), "but there are many things that I brought from myself when I wrote it, especially the passion for cinema. I was like Guy, I thought that if you make cinema and movies - these are art and the real thing, and reality TV is rubbish, it's not "Enr with drama. Like Guy, I learned that when you do a reality show and meet people, there is an art to it. You really learn both about yourself and about life. You meet real people who are strong, weak and special, and this meeting shakes you. Reality shows have the power of The camera, which is a kind of truth machine because you can't fake it for a long time."
So you don't share the criticism of the reality genre, which occupies almost all the prime time hours on the commercial channels and cultivates the avenue of reality stars that take over the stages and screens?
"I think that in reality shows the camera is a kind of truth machine. In the past there was a mystery around Hollywood movie actors, and they didn't want to do television because it exposed them too much. The reality show took it even more to the extreme, because not only the mystery disappeared but also the script, and it remained Only the person himself and his character. In reality shows, people are really very exposed. You know right away if he's a fake or not, and Instagram is the next thing, even more advanced.
"Regarding the casting of reality stars - there is such a thing called 'star quality', and once someone has this quality - they are suitable for the industry. Of course it is different to be a movie star, a TV star or an Instagram star, but there is a lot of overlap between them. In this film we cast Oral Zabri who became famous through the internet, and we did many auditions for him where we saw that he is a great actor, not to mention Noa Kirel who is a phenomenon. A singer I worked with in 'Kafula' and people told me 'she is not an actress', and in the first second we filmed I saw her talent and realized that there is She has it."
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