{"id":19007,"date":"2024-09-23T16:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=19007"},"modified":"2024-10-04T14:41:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:41:34","slug":"a-nice-jewish-boy-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/a-nice-jewish-boy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A NICE JEWISH BOY Le Dernier des Juifs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A NICE JEWISH BOY<\/h1>\n

(Le Dernier des Juifs)<\/h2>\n

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CINEMA COMPETITION
\n<\/strong>FRENCH NEWAVE 2.0
\n<\/strong>TRUFFAUT THEATRE
\nComedy \/ Drama<\/strong><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727383243643{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

THURSDAY OCTOBER 31<\/strong>
\n4:05 pm (Screening ends at 5:40 pm)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/66fd07a9c2fad2005d87d651″ align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727485542540{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Presented in association with:
\n<\/b>Charades
\nFilm Movement<\/b><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727294674613{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Premiere\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>|\u00a0France\u00a0|\u00a02024\u00a0|\u00a0Comedy, Drama |\u00a090\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles<\/p>\n

Directed by:<\/strong> No\u00e9 Debr\u00e9
\nWritten by: <\/strong>No\u00e9 Debr\u00e9, \u00c9lie Benchimol
\nProduced by: <\/strong>Benjamin Elalouf (Moonshaker), Nathalie Dennes (The Living), No\u00e9 Debr\u00e9 (L\u2019Embellie)
\nCinematography:\u00a0<\/strong>Boris Levy
\nFilm Editing: <\/strong>G\u00e9raldine Mangenot
\nOriginal Score: <\/strong>Valentin Hadjadj
\nCast: <\/strong>Michael Zindel (Bellisha),\u00a0Agn\u00e8s Jaoui (Giselle),\u00a0Solal Bouloudnine (Asher), Eva Huault (Mira), Pierre-Henry Salfati (the father), Youssouf Gueye (Moussa), Jean-Yves Freyburger (the priest), Rony Kramer (Bouanich), Marc Geissman (M. Bloch), Redouanne Harjane (the Krav-maga teacher)
\nInternational Sales: <\/strong>Charades
\nUS Distributor: <\/strong>Film Mouvement
\nUS Release Date:<\/strong> 2025<\/p>\n

The “nice Jewish boy” in question is 27-year-old Ruben Bellisha, who lives with his mother, Giselle, in the projects outside of Paris. Once a bustling Jewish community, the neighborhood has now become much more diverse \u2014 a fact Giselle is not thrilled about. The local synagogue has already closed and now the last Kosher grocer is going out of business. While they may be the last Jews living there, bumbling, nerdy Bellisha, a compulsive liar (albeit a very entertaining one), continually makes up stories to hide the truth and placate his traditional mother. And while she keeps saying they have to move away, she never quite finishes packing their moving cartons. Seasoned screenwriter No\u00e9 Debr\u00e9<\/strong> makes his directorial debut with this gentle, slightly wacky comedy that stages various shades of racism and anti-Semitism, as well as compassion and mutual respect, with the lightest of touches. But the heart of his film resides in a son’s devotion to his beloved mother. It goes without saying that the sublime Agn\u00e8s Jaoui is nothing short of magnificent in that role.<\/p>\n

No\u00e9 Debr\u00e9<\/strong> has written or co-written numerous feature-length screenplays, including Thomas Bidegain’s Les Cowboys<\/em> (2015); Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan<\/em> (2015), which won the Palme d’Or in Cannes; Pascal Elb\u00e9’s Thank You for Calling<\/em> (2015); Yvan Attal’s Le Brio<\/em> (Critics Award winner COLCOA 2017); Romain Gavras’s The World Is Yours<\/em> (2018); Michel Hazanavicius’s The Lost Prince <\/em>(2020); Emmanuel Poulain-Arnaud’s Les Cobayes <\/em>(2020); Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater<\/em> (2021); Bryan Marciano’s L’arche de No\u00e9<\/em> (2023); and H\u00e9l\u00e9na Klotz’s Spirit of Ecstasy<\/em> (2023). He created the series Parlement<\/em> (2020), directing two of its episodes, and teamed up with Benjamin Charbit to co-create the series Zorro<\/em> (TAFFF 2024).<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/a-nice-jewish-boy_1200x1600-temp-poster.jpeg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727108673689{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] A NICE JEWISH BOY (Le Dernier des Juifs) [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727381017122{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] CINEMA COMPETITION FRENCH NEWAVE 2.0 TRUFFAUT THEATRE Comedy \/ Drama [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727383243643{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] THURSDAY OCTOBER 31 4:05 pm (Screening ends at 5:40 pm) [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/66fd07a9c2fad2005d87d651″ align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1727485542540{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19007","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19007"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19617,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19007\/revisions\/19617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}