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Learning Hebrew
UK 2012
produced by Insurgent Films
directed by Louis Joon
starring Zoe Dorman, Dave Disaster, Frederick William Park, Mike Barrington, Louis Joon, Annie Ososova, Bonnie Blackhare, Eve Young, Glenn Walbridge, Juliana Reed, Neko Loveless, Victoria Gugenheim, David Wilkinson (II), Julian Smith, Emma Joon Dyer
written by Louis Joon, music by Louis Joon, Bryan Steeksma, Lyndon Holland, Richard Williams, songs by Mortad, Senser, Six Toes, Maleficent Martini, Bryan Steeksma, DJ Transporter, body pait designer: Victoria Gugenheim
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Bella (Zoe Dorman) is part of a hedonistic gang of atheist punks, who,
when they're not selling Darwinism door-to-door, are mostly into hard
drugs, hard partying, and fetishism of all sorts. But Atheism and
Darwinism are not particularly popular these days, and actually this
dismay has created two very violent groups, the Atheist Revolutionary
Army, a gang of terrorists, and the Politically Correct Militia,
a gang of thugs ... and Bella and friends find themselves in the middle. Bella
and her boyfriend StudD (Dave Disaster) live at Pilot's (Louis Joon) place
an insane Gulf war vet who lives under the delusion that he is in fact
Pontius Pilate who has killed Barabas - whom he weirdly enough sees reborn
in Phil (Mike Barrington), a homeless philosopher Bella's gang have picked
up in a park. Everything is tense in Bella's life these days, she gets
freaked out by Pilot, isn't all that much into StudD anymore, but simply
refuses to move back in with her "mother", eccentric
transvestite Miss Jon (Frederick William Park) - which is why Miss Jon
tries to have Pilot assassinated -, plus one of the girls in Bella's gang,
Magdalena (Annmie Ososova), actually confesses to her that she has found
back to her beliefs. And things really go out of control from there ... Basically,
Learning Hebrew is an utterly mad movie, as it features a story
that refuses to make too much sense and pays little head to narrative
structure, but presents the audience with different philosophies in a
refreshingly comical way, full of flashbacks that might only be delusions,
all in front of a colourful punk counterculture backdrop, and featuring
tons of weird but alluring make-up/body paint jobs on the protagonists.
The whole thing though is played by a decent ensemble cast who are in on
the joke, plus a fine directorial effort sees to it things never totally
get out of hand. A film that's certainly not for everybody, but if
counter culture comedy with a guaranteed lack of political correctness is
your thing, then this one's pretty much a must-see. And you can
of course learn more about the movie here:
www.gothsploitation.co.uk
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