{"id":460713,"date":"2026-02-10T19:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/460713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T19:29:10","slug":"nadav-lapids-sensuous-resistance-epic-hits-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/460713\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadav Lapid’s Sensuous Resistance Epic Hits Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nonstop, orgiastic party that would make Pasolini or Bosch proud? Yes<\/a>. A pop-colored blitz on the senses? Yes. An utterly necessary and devastating cry of the soul against nationalism? Yes.<\/p>\n

Nadav Lapid\u2019s \u201cYes,\u201d<\/a> which premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival out of competition, is all these things and more. It\u2019s also been a controversy magnet since playing at the festival, as financiers and more did not want to go near the Israeli filmmaker\u2019s fifth feature after \u201cPoliceman,\u201d \u201cThe Kindergarten Teacher,\u201d \u201cSynonyms,\u201d and \u201cAhed\u2019s Knee.\u201d From the trailer and the film\u2019s plot \u2014 centered on two Tel Aviv artists tasked with writing a new anthem for Israel in the days after the October 7, 2023 attacks \u2014 you won\u2019t be shocked as to why. But the film\u2019s artistry \u2014 overflowing with excess and hedonism and an eye for commanding visuals \u2014 is impossible to dismiss.<\/p>\n

\"'Erupcja'\"<\/a> \"SMOKEY<\/a> <\/p>\n

In the days after October 7, Tel Aviv jazz musician Y (Ariel Bronz) and his dancer wife Yasmine (Efrat Dor) decide to say yes to everything \u2014 including a commission to write a rousing new national anthem. Along the way, they surrender their bodies and souls to Israel\u2019s political and social elite. While \u201cYes\u201d is a strident indictment of modern Israel \u2014 in which Lapid was ultimately able to shoot his film, even as the chances of him ever screening there have all but evaporated \u2014 it\u2019s also a cinema of spectacle. Y and Yasmine writhe, contort, and undulate in all manner of orgy-tastic scenes that feel torn out of a movie musical. <\/p>\n

\u201cI truly don\u2019t understand when the word \u2018safe\u2019 became positive in cinema and the word \u2018dangerous\u2019 became negative,\u201d Lapid told IndieWire<\/a> at Cannes last year once \u201cYes\u201d proved to be the festival\u2019s most volatile movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am saying what my press agent told me to say when I am asked why the\u00a0film<\/a>\u00a0is not in the competition,\u201d Lapid said a day before \u201cYes\u201d premiered at the festival. \u201cMore or less, everyone asks this question. What she told me to say is, \u2018Maybe it\u2019s a question that should be addressed to the people who selected the film, and not to you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the film\u2019s unusual production, during which time many actors and crew dropped out over concerns with the material, he said, \u201cWe shot the film in an ambience of fear and paranoia because we were afraid to be denounced. We reduced [in terms of crew and cast] \u2014 there was only one monitor on set because we were afraid someone would do something he doesn\u2019t like and would denounce us. \u2018False script, fake synopsis.\u2019 It was a little bit like shooting a film in the land of the country of the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes\u201d arrives in select theaters on Friday, March 27 from Kino Lorber<\/a>. Watch the trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nonstop, orgiastic party that would make Pasolini or Bosch proud? Yes. A pop-colored blitz on the senses?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,2695,206,214981,9552,210986],"class_list":["post-460713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-nadav-lapid","tag-trailers","tag-yes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}