A nonstop, orgiastic social gathering that might make Pasolini or Bosch proud? Sure. A pop-colored blitz on the senses? Sure. An totally needed and devastating cry of the soul towards nationalism? Sure.
Nadav Lapid’s “Sure,” which premiered on the 2025 Cannes Movie Competition out of competitors, is all these items and extra. It’s additionally been an argument magnet since enjoying on the competition, as financiers and extra didn’t need to go close to the Israeli filmmaker’s fifth function after “Policeman,” “The Kindergarten Trainer,” “Synonyms,” and “Ahed’s Knee.” From the trailer and the movie’s plot — centered on two Tel Aviv artists tasked with writing a brand new anthem for Israel within the days after the October 7, 2023 assaults — you gained’t be shocked as to why. However the movie’s artistry — overflowing with extra and hedonism and a mind for commanding visuals — is unimaginable to dismiss.
Within the days after October 7, Tel Aviv jazz musician Y (Ariel Bronz) and his dancer spouse Yasmine (Efrat Dor) determine to say sure to every thing — together with a fee to jot down a rousing new nationwide anthem. Alongside the best way, they give up their our bodies and souls to Israel’s political and social elite. Whereas “Sure” is a strident indictment of contemporary Israel — during which Lapid was finally in a position to shoot his movie, even because the possibilities of him ever screening there have all however evaporated — it’s additionally a cinema of spectacle. Y and Yasmine writhe, contort, and undulate in all method of orgy-tastic scenes that really feel torn out of a film musical.
“I really don’t perceive when the phrase ‘protected’ turned constructive in cinema and the phrase ‘harmful’ turned adverse,” Lapid instructed IndieWire at Cannes final yr as soon as “Sure” proved to be the competition’s most unstable film.
“I’m saying what my press agent instructed me to say when I’m requested why the movie is just not within the competitors,” Lapid mentioned a day earlier than “Sure” premiered on the competition. “Roughly, everybody asks this query. What she instructed me to say is, ‘Possibly it’s a query that ought to be addressed to the individuals who chosen the movie, and to not you.’”
Of the movie’s uncommon manufacturing, throughout which era many actors and crew dropped out over considerations with the fabric, he mentioned, “We shot the movie in an atmosphere of worry and paranoia as a result of we had been afraid to be denounced. We lowered (when it comes to crew and forged) — there was just one monitor on set as a result of we had been afraid somebody would do one thing he doesn’t like and would denounce us. ‘False script, pretend synopsis.’ It was a bit of bit like capturing a movie within the land of the nation of the enemy.”
“Sure” arrives in choose theaters on Friday, March 27 from Kino Lorber. Watch the trailer beneath.