The Israeli film channel on Cellcom TV and Yes will feature a program of movies set in the capital for on June 5, including Avi Nesher’s , about a hipster cartoonist who helps a rabbi in hiding, and Emil Ben-Shimon’s , about a group of Mizrahi women who rebel against their ultra-strict new rabbi. When I saw that there was a new documentary about Louis C.K.
, , which was on the program at Docaviv, I thought – naively, perhaps – that this would be a look at the comedian’s life and career, as well as how he has made his way back from a sexual misconduct scandal that broke at the height of the #MeToo movement about seven years ago. After all, always had a persona in which he got laughs out of accentuating flaws, so anyone who saw his act or his television show Louie could not have been all that surprised by his bad behavior that led to the scandal, or the fact that he quickly owned up to it. But his fall from grace was precipitous and it made some people wake up to the dark side of the #MeToo movement: that alongside the justifiable prosecution of such predators as , it also led to the downfall of many men whose behavior might be grounds for divorce but not for eternal banishment from the cultural landscape and polite society.
I’ve always been a big fan of the comedian, especially of his television series and his appearances on , a really funny show worth seeing if you can find it. It’s also true that there are few people who will not find some of Louis’ humor offe.
