From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer

  • Israel Myomano Shel Tzlam Hatonot
Short / Drama
Israel, 2016, 40 min

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A wedding photographer will marry one bride, kill another and return home. The most-impossible-to-classify film in Cannes this year.
Director Nadav Lapid shot wedding films over a period of three and a half years, well over 600 of them. At first he enjoyed it, but later couldn't distinguish between the couples and the weddings. He developed an aversion to the events he witnessed. That's how this film was made, as a personal declaration of war against the industry of love and the institutionalization of love. Lapid translated his complex feelings about love, intimacy, loneliness and marriage into the language of film. The result is a portrait of a jaded wedding photographer taking pictures of two couples against the backdrop of dunes and Roman ruins. (Warsaw Film Festival)

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