2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Nadav Lapid’s Ahed’s Knee

He saw his second feature (The Kindergarten Teacher) play at the Critics Week (and be adapted into a U.S remake shortly after) certainly jury member Maggie Gyllenhaal might have been the most in-the-know about Nadav Lapid‘s filmography to date. After recently winning the Golden Bear for Synonymes (there is an inside joke to be found) he was ready for the big stage with his fourth film — Ahed’s Knee which is just as politicized as his three other features. An ode to his creative collaborator/mother, Day 2 would be a soul-crushing drama featuring the unlikeable big deal character of Y played by Avshalom Pollak who befriends (or so we think) Yahalom (Nur Fibak) — despite her lack of knowledge of what Battleship Potemkin might be, this film about a filmmaker is served ice cold.

Our critics (almost half have seen this) mostly found this portrait to be a “hard pill to swallow”. It currently sits at a 2.5 average.

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