When Israeli absurdity collides with post-October 7 anxiety
Eran Kolirin's latest film, 'Some Notes on the Current Situation,' uses surreal vignettes to contrast familiar Israeli absurdity with the post-October 7 sense of exile from something that has already disappeared
Film Review |
Dec 25, 2025 3:22 pm IST
Dec 25, 2025 3:22 pm IST
"The situation" is the colloquial term Israelis use to describe the country's overall security climate. "Some Notes on the Current Situation," directed by Eran Kolirin, continues a style that, in his films such as "Let It Be Morning," "The Exchange" and "The Band's Visit", has never shied away from blending the absurd, the quirky and the painfully authentic human conditions in which Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs, are caught.
Kolirin's latest feature is made up of six vignettes and an epilogue, shot in black and white and carried by student actors from Tel Aviv's Seminar Hakibbutzim acting school.