祝你好运
Mazel Tov
导演｜伊莱·祖佐夫斯基
编剧｜伊莱·祖佐夫斯基
主演｜阿米特·拉哈夫、阿米尔·库利、玛雅·达冈、亚尼夫·比顿、鲁比·波拉特·肖瓦尔、皮特·诺勒、马扬·塞勒克塔
制片人｜汤姆·西迪、奥利·切维奥
摄影｜达里娅·盖勒
类型｜剧情短片
时长｜25分钟
完成时间｜2021年
对白语言｜希伯来语、法语、阿拉伯语、英语
字幕｜英语
地区｜以色列、美国
制片公司｜无
故事梗概
故事发生在以色列的一个宴会厅，而且正值战争最激烈的时候，亚当·魏茨曼的成人礼派对变成了一场光荣的灾难。在成年的边缘——精神崩溃的边缘——亚当朝着接受自己的性取向迈出了至关重要的一步。
导演介绍
伊莱·祖佐夫斯基在特拉维夫出生和长大，是一名导演、作家和记者。作为2021年的罗德学者候选人，他以优异的成绩毕业于哈佛大学，获得了电影制作和英国文学学士学位。在哈佛大学就读期间，他导演了多部短片和戏剧，还担任了《哈佛倡导者》（美国历史最悠久的、连续出版的大学文学杂志）的专题编辑，并获得了路易斯-苏德勒艺术奖、托马斯-T-霍普斯奖和艺术家发展奖学金等荣誉。他的短片《今夜你属于我》入选2017年戛纳电影节的短片角。他的戏剧《牛头人》赢得了2017年雅法春季艺术节的大奖。他的作品曾在波士顿艺术博物馆、美国剧目戏院和察夫塔剧院等地展出。他的原创作品和翻译作品最近发表在《国土报》、《以色列时报》和《哈佛政治评论》等刊物上。祖佐夫斯基曾是以色列最古老的周刊《Bamahane》的编辑，并两次获得卓越主编奖。
导演阐述
“生日快乐。你的十三岁很重要。也许这是你第一次公开亮相。”
——大卫·福斯特·华莱士，《永远高高在上》
《祝你好运》是一部关于成长的电影，探索了自我发现的惊奇和恐惧，是一场狂热的奥德赛，整个行动发生在一个晚上。这也是一种重新想象；虚构了（以及可能）发生在2008年6月23日的事件——根据犹太传统，2008年6月23日是我“成长为一个男人”的日子。这部电影是我在哈佛大学的毕业项目，是我试图用自己成长的痛苦来反思青少年同性恋的生活经历。通过聚焦这一犹太成人仪式，这部电影探究了一个没有出柜的男孩在异性恋和偏执的环境中长大成人意味着什么。我相信，这种公私聚会的独特性和表现性，为探索当代以色列社会中的男子气概、酷儿性和犹太性之间的联系提供了肥沃的土壤。
Director｜Eli Zuzovsky
Screenwriter｜Eli Zuzovsky
Cast｜Amit Rahav, Amir Khoury, Maya Dagan, Yaniv Biton, Ruby Porat Shoval, Peter Knoller, Maayan Selektar
Producer｜Tom Sidi, Ori Chevio
Cinematographer｜Daria Geller
Genre｜Short Film (Fiction: Drama, Comedy)
Length｜25min
Year｜2021
Dialogue｜Hebrew, French, Arabic, English
Subtitles｜English
Region｜Israel, U.S.
Production Company｜None
Synopsis
At a banquet hall in Israel, at the height of a war, Adam Weizmann’s bar mitzvah party was turned into a glorious catastrophe. On the cusp of manhood—and on the verge of a nervous breakdown—Adam takes a crucial step toward coming to terms with his sexuality.
Director Biography
Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Eli Zuzovsky is a director, writer, and journalist. A 2021 Rhodes Scholar-Elect, he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University with a BA in Filmmaking and English Literature. At Harvard, he directed numerous short films and plays, served as the features editor of The Harvard Advocate (the oldest continuously published college literary magazine in the U.S.), and received honors like The Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, The Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, and The Artist Development Fellowship. His short film Tonight You Belong to Me was selected for The Short Film Corner at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. His play Minotaur won the 2017 Jaffa Spring Festival. His work has been presented at The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The American Repertory Theater, and Tzavta Theater, among others. His writing and translations have recently appeared in Haaretz, The Times of Israel, and The Harvard Political Review. Zuzovsky was the editor of Bamahane, Israel’s oldest weekly magazine, and won the Editor-in-Chief Award for Excellence twice.
Director’s Statement
“Happy Birthday. Your thirteenth is important. Maybe your first really public day.”
—David Foster Wallace, “Forever Overhead”
Mazel Tov is a coming-of-age film on speed exploring the wonders—and horrors—of self-discovery, a feverish odyssey whose entire action occurs over the course of a single evening. It is also a reimagining; a fictionalized account of the events that happened— and could have happened—on June 23, 2008, the day I “became a man” according to Jewish tradition. The film, which was my thesis project at Harvard, is my attempt at the reappropriation of my own growing pains as a means to meditate on the lived experiences of gay teens. By zeroing in on this Jewish rite of passage, the film inquires what it means to reach adulthood as a closeted boy against a landscape of heteronormativity and bigotry. The unique, performative nature of this public-private gathering, I believe, provides fertile ground for the exploration of the nexus of masculinity, queerness, and Jewishness in contemporary Israeli society.