Un film français (coproduction Tu Vas Voir d'Edgard Tenembaum) vient d'être primé à Sundance: Sweet Mud du réalisateur Israélien Dro Shaul a reçu le prix du jury. Le film rétablit une vérité peu connue sur la vie dans les Kiboutz dans les années 70. Dror, réalisateur issu de la publicité, qui signe son second long métrage avec des images très léchées et beaucoup de talent qui n'est pas sans rappeller celui d'Emir Kusturica pour lequel j'avais travaillé avec Le Temps des Git...

Wednesday, January 24----SWEET MUD, the sole dramatic film from Israel in the Sundance World Cinema Drama Competition, debuted this evening at the Egyptian Theater in Park City. The film is the second feature by Israeli director Dror Shaul. Set in a kibbutz (collective farm) during the 1970s, the film is a powerful, courageous critique of kibbutzniks who ostracize a psychologically unstable young mother. It also shows the effect of their well-meaning prejudice on her youngest son, who stands p...

"Sweet Mud" is the highest scoring film in Israel this year and one of the foreign films contenders. It is rumored to be selected for Berlin Panorama. Could well be the sweet surprise hit of next year" Bruno Chatelin Sweet Mud: (Israel, 2006, 97 Minutes, color) has been written and directed by Dror Shaul While the Israeli kibbutz has been idealized as a paragon of utopian movements, Sweet Mud tells a darker, more nuanced tale of a community ill equipped to cope with individuality and deviatio...