7.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Drama, Comedy • 2025 • 152 min
Yes (2025)
Yes (2025)
Overview
Set in the days after October 7, this Israeli drama-comedy follows a jazz musician and his dancer wife who agree to sell their talents to the country's political and military elite, eventually tasked with writing a new national anthem. Director Nadav Lapid, known for pointed satire aimed at Israeli society, uses the premise to interrogate nationalism, artistic complicity, and the price of going along. The Leans Progressive label tracks directly: the film frames submission to jingoistic power as a moral failure, and its skepticism toward state authority and elite consensus sits comfortably within progressive cultural discourse. Family life appears but stays peripheral. Religion and identity themes are largely absent from the available signals.
Starring Cast
Sharon Alexander • Ariel Bronz • Efrat Dor
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Strong Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
7.5
Overview
Set in the days after October 7, this Israeli drama-comedy follows a jazz musician and his dancer wife who agree to sell their talents to the country's political and military elite, eventually tasked with writing a new national anthem. Director Nadav Lapid, known for pointed satire aimed at Israeli society, uses the premise to interrogate nationalism, artistic complicity, and the price of going along. The Leans Progressive label tracks directly: the film frames submission to jingoistic power as a moral failure, and its skepticism toward state authority and elite consensus sits comfortably within progressive cultural discourse. Family life appears but stays peripheral. Religion and identity themes are largely absent from the available signals.
Starring Cast
Sharon Alexander • Ariel Bronz • Efrat Dor
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Political: Strong Left
Confidence: High
The film's central subject is Israel's post-October 7 actions and elite complicity, a topic with strong inherent left valence in mainstream discourse; the narrative frames submission to jingoistic power structures and indifference to Palestinian suffering as the core problem, championing resistance through its blistering satirical lens.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
The Israeli satire centers on a musician and his wife who compromise their art and principles while serving the country's elite after the October 7 attacks. The story delivers a harsh critique of nationalism and complicity in the ensuing conflict through its central characters and events.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High
The film depicts a stable nuclear family consisting of a married heterosexual couple and their infant son living together in a modest apartment, with the parents shown as bonded and making choices partly motivated by providing for their child. Family relationships and norms are peripheral to the central political satire on artistic complicity and nationalism, with no endorsement, subversion, or critique of traditional structures, gender roles, or values.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film centers on a heterosexual married couple and their young son navigating artistic compromises and decadence in post-October 7 Israeli society through satire, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film follows a jazz musician and his dancer wife who, after the October 7 attacks, agree to perform for Israel's elite and compose a new national anthem, with no transgender characters or themes present.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
Original satire with all named characters created for the film; no adaptations, legacy figures, or prior canon exist to enable a gender swap.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
Original contemporary Israeli satire with no source material, prior adaptations, or historical figures; all characters are newly created for this film.
Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: Low
Not depicted in the film.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.4
6.1
Critic Ratings
9.2
8.5
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