“Inglorious Basterds”

The Holocaust. Representations of  the Holocaust, what it’s possible to say about certain things. Jews as natural allies of native Americans and blacks, an ode to miscegenation.  Do people who prostitute art and especially cinema, deserve to live?  An exploding, orgasmic, revenge fantasy. References to dozens of other films. Some excellent jokes. Spoken in English, French, German and Italian. Beautifully shot and great art direction. Very violent and about the redemptive and necessary parts of violence. Against  proportional violence. if violence is necessary only too much is enough and then it’s barely enough.

An Poc Ar Buile

Quintín is starting to show signs of having lost the run of himself altogther. In an interview here he says,

I’m going to make a joke, Martel is something of a Kirchnerite artist.

In the second part of the same interview he says that Pola is,

… functionally Kirchnerite, although she’s a natural born gorila.

What next? Functionally Kirchernite breakfast cereals perhaps, or a way of playing the banjo that signals sympathy for the government or serves its ends. It’s only a matter of time.

Avi Mograbi in Buenos Aires Redux

here

Avi Mograbi in Buenos Aires

here

Max Hastings No Longer Loves Israel

here