Nadav Lapid shakes up Cannes with 'Yes': 'Films have become too wise in the face of a world of crazy savagery'
Interview by Nicolas Schaller
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Israeli director Nadav Lapid, in June 2022 in Paris. JOEL SAGET/AFP
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Interview The Israeli director created a stir at the Filmmakers' Fortnight with a film of sound and fury, about the violence and obscenity of a world beyond Israel.
A firebrand announced, a contract honored. Preceded by a sulphurous reputation according to which his virulence against the Netanyahu government had pushed the president of the Cannes Film Festival, Iris Knobloch, to put pressure on the general delegate Thierry Frémaux to deprive him of competition, Nadav Lapid's new film made the headlines on Thursday, May 22nd at the Filmmakers' Fortnight – the terrible day of the assassination of two members of the Israeli embassy in Washington , collateral victims of a war whose Gazan corpses are no longer counted. The room was packed and the ovation at the end of the screening was full, despite a few timid boos. It must be said that Lapid, eternal despiser of his beloved Israel, does not hold back.
In three acts, like so many stations of a totally degenerate Way of the Cross, "Yes" follows the wanderings of a couple of artist-performers-gigolos subject to the good will of a repugnant jet-set and who nevertheless try to decently raise their son, born on October 7, 2023 (follow his gaze), between each new push notification of the deaths in Gaza. A hope of a normal life that shatters when the father and husband Y (fictional ersatz of Lapid...
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