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LE FIGARO.
- Inspired by the play by
Eugène Ionesco
, your film tells the story of the emergence of intolerance and totalitarian thinking through a series of daily episodes that take place in Israel in a single building, the Shikun.
In this hybrid group of people of different origins and languages, some transform into rhinoceroses, others resist.
Is this a metaphor for our contemporary societies?
AMOS GITAL.
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When I started working on this film, I met Eugène Ionesco's daughter, in Paris, and we talked a lot about the context and complexity of his universe.
Ionesco's play,
Rhinoceros
, was written in the late 1950s as a totalitarian fable, and seemed to me to echo what we were experiencing.
I saw the possibility of inspiration for a film about the present.
But
Shikun
also draws inspiration from other literary references.
It ends with a poem by Mahmoud Darwish,
Think of Others
.
There is…
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