17 dancers sit down toger in a semicircle on chairs. Too loud, rhythm-driven music you get into a wild twitch, finally jump up and shout aloud: "Shebashamayim UVA ' Ha'aretz!" This is Hebrew and means "heaven and earth".
With this choreography begins 7 days in Ebb, but no, new political thriller of Brazilian director José Padilha is not a secret dance film. It is mainly about liberation of Israeli hostages from hands of Palestinian and German hijackers on July 4, 1976. But dance deposit is central metaphor of film, which Padilha repeatedly intertwines visually and acoustically with action.
The 50-year-old is dealing with a political issue outside his homeland for first time in 7 days in ebb. And as it is his way, it is not enough for him to deal only with dramatic abduction and subsequent liberation action. With 7 days in Ebb, Padilha tries to penetrate entire Middle East conflict – a company that inevitably has to fail. However, as always with this hyperactive Politfilmer, it happens in an interesting and stylistically intoxicating way.
The hostage liberation of Ebb has been filmed several times, so far always as a martialisches action spectacle (about... who do not know Mercy with Charles Bronson). Padilha dares much more, artistic and narrative. The real story revolves around abduction of Air France Flight 139, which stands out in Tel Aviv on morning of June 27, 1976. Among 270 persons on board are two members of Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine and two members of German terrorist organization "revolutionary cells": Wilfried Böse (Daniel Brühl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Rosamund Pike). The terrorists hijack machine and take course to Ugandan, where y want to force exchange of more than a hundred hostages against Palestinian prisoners.
The screenplay (Gregory Burke) tells event mainly from two perspectives. It observes dynamics between German kidnappers and ir Palestinian accomplices and shows that evil will soon come to doubt. Especially when Palestinians separate Jewish passengers from rest of abductees – a process that reminds us of selection in concentration camps.
At same time, Israeli cabinet is struggling to deal with situation. Prime Minister Izchak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) wants negotiations, Defense Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan) to set in motion a military operation.
Date Of Update: 01 May 2018, 12:02
