HaChaverim shel Yana

[magid]

Last night I went to a screening of the 1999 movie Yana's Friends at MIT. It's about some Russian immigrant families in Tel Aviv around the time of the Gulf War, not friends, but people whose lives intersect in interesting ways, more like three interwoven shorter stories than one larger story.

Thank goodness for subtitles; I could catch some of the Hebrew, but not all, and much dialogue was in Russian anyway. And it was rather amusing seeing a TV with Hebrew subtitles for the English-language news onscreen with the English subtitles for movie dialogue below.

It was hard hearing the sirens, exactly the sirens I remember, seeing the gas masks, a mamat (even as I was thinking: but she's no longer pregnant, even, why would she have a mamat?), the rush to tape the door. And then that remembered scariness was turned upside down as characters ended up having sex while wearing the gas masks.

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Tonight there's another (free) screening of another Israeli movie (the last of three), Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (HaKochavim Shel Shlomi).

And in browsing today's calendar at MIT, I see tonight there's a chocolate sculpture class (7-10 P.M., $5), and tomorrow night there's a taiglach class (5-7 P.M., free) and a discussion of the Mars rover entry, descent, and landing system (7:30-9 P.M., free).

Comments

[neorock.livejournal.com]

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi is a cute movie. A friend recently bought it for me.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recommendation. I was too lazy (and tired) to go out last night; hopefully I'll catch the movie some other time.