Another week is coming to an end, and in order for you to start planning your plans for the rest of the week right now - we have prepared for you some recommendations for everything interesting in the world of culture during the week of 11/01-05/01.
Movies
Snow Brotherhood
The new film by acclaimed Spanish director Juan Antonio Biona ("The Impossible," "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom") follows the true and unbelievable story of the survivors of Flight 571, which crashed in Uruguay's Andes in 1972. Now, those who survived the crash find themselves in one of the world's most difficult environments to live in – all alone.
Since its screening at the last Venice Film Festival, the film has received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and 13 nominations for the Goya Awards, and has won many other awards, two of them at the European Film Academy Awards.
Available on Netflix
Madeleine's driver
When Madeleine (played by veteran Lynn Renaud) orders a taxi to take her to the nursing home where she will move in, where she will spend the next chapter of her life, sensitive taxi driver Charles (Danny Boone) complies with her request to move to places that have affected her life. As you drive through the streets of Paris, Madeleine's extraordinary past is revealed to Charles, which develops a friendship between the two that will change their lives.
In cinemas
Sweet comfort
Emmy-winning actor-creator debut Dan Levy (Schitt's Creek), who plays Mark, who struggles to cope with the deaths of his husband and mother. To cope with his difficulty and "clear his head", he goes on a trip to Paris with his two best friends, where they will have to deal with some truths and secrets that will emerge. Other cast members include Oscar nominee Ruth Noga ("Loving"), Emmy nominee Himesh Patel ("Station Eleven") and Luke Evans ("Fast & Furious").
Available on Netflix
Quiet night
Hong Kong action movie master John Woo's new film ("Mission Impossible 2," "Frontal Confrontation" and a slew of action movies he created in his home country) follows the character of a father (Joel Kinnaman, "For All Humanity") who loses his speech after being wounded in a brutal attack in which he lost his young son - and embarks on an uncompromising quest for revenge on Christmas Eve.
In cinemas
The Samaritans
Only about 850 people belong to the Samaritan community, who do everything possible to continue to exist and maintain a tradition that is about 3,500 years old.
For five years, Moshe Alfie's documentary follows the inner world of this unique community, between Torah verses, ceremonies and holidays and the daily struggle to continue an ancient tradition.
Sunday, at HOT8
From the film "The Samaritans", photo: Moshe Alfi
Series
Massacre
After the first season of this surprising drama became one of the best series of 2020, it returns with an intriguing new season, which introduces its heroes about two years after the end of the events of the previous season.
This time, Dori (Gal Toren) is a TV star who has everything and a chef without a restaurant, while Nimrod (Guri Alfi) has become a hot line cook in a restaurant, who has hit a glass ceiling for someone who entered the restaurant industry at a late age. Following a personal crisis and a meeting with a businesswoman, Dori decides to open a new place that will redefine the experience of eating in a restaurant, and joins forces with Nimrod - a meeting that awakens old demons and creates new ones. Each pushes his limits far beyond what he expected. Other participants: Yael Elkana, Keren Berger, Dana Frieder, Ori Albi and Tom Avni.
Available on yes
Sun Brothers
At the heart of this black action comedy series (one of whose creators is Emmy winner Brad Falcheck, who alongside the legendary Ryan Murphy created such successful series as "Glee", "American Horror", "Pose" and more) is a member of a Taiwanese crime syndicate, who discovers that his family is in the crosshairs of a mysterious enemy. To protect his opinionated mother (played by Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh, "Everything Everywhere All at Once") and his younger brother, who is completely unaware of his family background, he flies to Los Angeles, where the three will have to mend the rifts that have formed between them and fight together against all those who want to harm them.
Available on Netflix
eco
After stealing the show in Hawkeye, superhero Maya Lopez returns in her own series, which also stars Alaqua Cox, a Native American actress who is deaf from birth and provides such an important representation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
When Echo's character is haunted by Wilson Fisk's (Kingpin) criminal empire, she returns to her home, where she will confront her family and legacy.
Wednesday, on Disney+
Three women
Based on a book by Lisa Tadeo, this drama follows the story of three American women living a completely different existence, each trying in her own way to reclaim her life and sexuality.
Their story is interwoven by a young writer (played by Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley, Big Little Lies), who meets each of them during her research. The series also stars Emmy nominee Betty Gilpin ("GLOW") and Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood ("In Treatment").
Available on yes
music
New album for Aviatar Banai
Every Thursday since the massacre carried out by Hamas terrorists in the communities near the Gaza Strip and southern Israel on October 7, Evyatar Banai began sending his social media followers what he described as an "evening of playing and studying," during which he performed his songs and the songs of others.
This series of meetings brought to the world his new album ("Anchor in the Water"), which includes cover versions and some transitional tracks by Banai himself, and the result is nothing short of miraculous.
For the umpteenth time, this great musician proved how much talent there is in all his limbs, managing to perform other people's songs (including his late brother Meir's "Looking for the Direction") as if they had always been his own. Thanks to its touching simplicity, precise and sincere performances and the choice of favorite songs that can be interpreted as the current situation in Israel - this is much more than a typical cover album, but a shocking and chilling bomb of emotion.
Available on all platforms
A tribute album to the works of Yair Rosenblum
On the occasion of what was supposed to be the 80th birthday of one of the most important artists in Hebrew music, BPM College collaborated with the Rosenblum family and Aroma Music's "Iron Sheep" to create an album ("Yair"), selected eight teams from the college - and created new arrangements from Rosenblum's magnificent catalog of songs.
The arrangements are full of rap (for example, "Ma Avrach" performed by Afek Lamour, which gives it an aspect appropriate for today), autotune ("When I grow up" performed by Moran Ohva) and dance-house arrangements ("In a Red Dress" performed by Thelma Preminger), and the choice to take them in a more modern direction created a surprising and enjoyable album.
Available on all platforms
stage
Open File: Transfer Club Murder
Six years after three transgender women were murdered in an underground club in Jerusalem by a man who was never caught, the sense of failure still haunts Dolev Mizrahi, the veteran and well-known investigative officer who handled the case. When new evidence is discovered and shakes up the entire investigation, Mizrahi is determined to prove himself - but the case is taken from him and handed over to a young investigator. Despite his ouster, he is willing to do anything to find the killer.
The play created by Matan Ben-Ami and Ram Guetta (who also directed) puts the audience in a psychological mind game, allowing them to take an active part in the investigation itself through a WhatsApp group that is updated in real time.
Sunday and Monday, Tmuna, Tel Aviv
From the play "Open File: Murder at the Transfer Club", photo: Ilan Zakharov
Lucia di Lammermoor
The renowned opera created by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti receives a spectacular new adaptation, conducted by Carlo Montanero and directed by Omer Ben Saadia, with the participation of an Israeli and international team of soloists, the Opera Orchestra - the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion and the Israeli Opera Choir.
The story of the opera follows Lucia, who secretly meets with Edgardo, whose families have a long-standing hatred. When her brother forges a letter stating that Edgardo is in love with another, he manages to convince Lucia to marry another - and from there the plot only gets more complicated.
Starting Friday, Opera House, Tel Aviv
From "Lucia di Lammermoor", photo: Yossi Zweker
Female Cabinet
Miki Kam, Tali Oren and Meshi Kleinstein collaborate on a new musical comedy show, born due to the current situation in the country.
These talented trio of women will be accompanied by a live musical ensemble, with which they will perform well-known and beloved Israeli songs of all time, alongside songs from musicals in which they starred. All this - combined with pieces of humor that they will perform together and separately.
Friday, ZOA House, Tel Aviv; Wednesday, Heichal HaTarbut, Gan Shmuel
Miki Kam, Photo: Efrat Eshel
What now?
A new play written by Roy Feinmesser following the events of October 7, which presents the story of Ohad and Yarden (played by Liron Noah and Adi Sharon), two high school students who are stuck in their school's bomb shelter during a barrage of missiles.
Staying there leads the two friends on a journey of self-reflection, in which they will try to understand how they feel about the situation, during which they will ask themselves how to cope with a changed world and a lack of control. All proceeds from the play will be donated to the families of the abductees.
Shani, Tzavta, Tel Aviv
From rehearsals to the play "What Now?", Photo: PR
Exhibitions
Hanging by the hairline
In order to raise public awareness and concern about the abductees who have been held captive by Hamas for the past three months, artist Dr. Shaked Halperin created an exhibition featuring portraits of the abductees, created using the technique of dipping thread in color. In the exhibition, visitors will be able to watch Halperin perform additional work before their eyes, and contribute their part to a large collaborative work using the same method. Free entrance with advance registration.
Sunday-Thursday, Mazeh 9 Young People's House, Tel Aviv
Portrait of a kidnapped person created by Shaked Halperin, photo: David Levy
Still breathing
Through her illustrations and accompanying texts, artist and designer Mor Levy-Gewirtz copes with the stillbirth she underwent when she was eight months pregnant with her first child.
The exhibition will present illustrations by Levi-Gewirtz, which she created as a way to express her feelings and pain, some of which exist as therapeutic cards - those that touch on the soft stomach, fears and pain she experienced following the difficult loss.
Hankin Gallery, Holon
A work by Mor Levi-Gewirtz, photo: Mor Levi-Gevirtz
Back Mind
The central image in Anat Betzer's new exhibition is a woman's head painted from behind, from the back of the neck - the lesser-known, dangerous side, the hidden place of human beings. The various hair arrangements in the paintings in the exhibition are as a veil, a veil or a scarf, which cover, conceal and illuminate a woman and her femininity.
Beneath the meticulous aesthetics, the series of paintings presented in the exhibition can be read as an echo of an ongoing struggle, reflecting the most fundamental dramatic conflicts of our time, so that behind the curtain of beauty - the "method" is undermined to terrible conceptual chaos.
Naga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Work by Anat Betzer, Photo: Elad Sarig
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