Sound of Metal
On Friday May 31st, Roffa Mon Amour + Paviljoen aan het Water are joining forces again for a night with food and film. We’re going to enjoy a delicious dinner made by the unique talent Luise Hartel before the film Sound of Metal (2019) by Darius Marder starts on the waterfront of Charlois surrounded by the lights of the city.
About the film: Sound of Metal (2019)
Ruben is an ex-heroin-addict drummer. While on his tour with his lead singer/girlfriend, Ruben realizes that his hearing, the most precious ability to a musician, is rapidly deteriorating. As this sudden hearing loss turns his world upside down, and numbing fear paired with angry denial takes over, Ruben reluctantly accepts to join a small deaf community overseen by Joe, a compassionate Vietnam War veteran. But, is Ruben willing to accept his new life and learn how to be deaf?
Sound of Metal dives deep into life’s tough questions: disability, resilience, addiction, relationships, and faith. It’s a movie that sticks with you, making you ponder long after the credits roll. It shows us the harsh realities of these struggles but also the power of community in overcoming them.
About Luise
Luise works as a freelancer at the intersection of communication, sustainability and music festivals. When it comes to cooking, she can best be described as adept amateur with a strong desire to transform plants into food.
About food
Luise’s cooking style is somewhere inbetween intuitive and conceptual: Instead of a recipe, she tends to start with a vegetable and adds an extra layer – answering a specific question, matching colors, combining textures or going for food alliterations. In her dream world, each meal would consist of at least 5 vegetables across 3 plates – so you can share and hopefully connect with each other in the process.
What you can expect
During Sound of Metal (2019) x taste of plants, you will be served a small number of uncomplicated yet unexpected plant-based dishes to share.
The Lure
Roffa Mon Amour and Pavijoen aan het Water are joining forces for a Polish night. We’re going to enjoy some juicy Polish dumplings before the film The Lure (2015) starts on the waterfront of Charlois surrounded by the lights of the city.
About the film
Two sirens, Golden and Silver meet the Polish rock group Figs n’ Dates in the 1980s. They go to the nightclub where the band performs and begin working as strippers and backing vocalists, eventually establishing the duo “The Lure.” In the meantime, Silver falls in love with the bassist Mietek while her sister is bloodthirsty and eats humans. Golden learns from Triton, a fellow marine creature who is also the singer of a metal band, that Silver will transform into sea foam if she falls in love and her love marries someone else.
The Lure is a modern fairy tale based on “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen. Described by the director herself as a coming-of-age story, it explores the sexuality of two young women – here mermaids – using the power of glamorous musical numbers.
As the debut film for the director Agnieszka Smoczynska, she admitted that it echoes her youth since her mum owned a nightclub, where she had her “first shot of vodka, first cigarette, first sexual disappointment and first important feeling for a boy.”
Bar Bahar
Besties and roomies Laila and Salma drink most of their friends under the table. Laila is a fierce attorney, chain smoker, megaflirt and part-time raver. Salma is queer, DJ and reluctantly working extra hours in a restaurant. They live a ‘sex, drugs and rock n roll’ lifestyle – wild at times but also painful. The reason? They belong to a marginalized group of Palestinian women in Tel Aviv.
The unexpected arrival of the more traditional Nour who’s devoted to finishing her computer science studies and becoming a bride according to Muslim standards seems to disrupt the two.
Three completely different personalities who share the same values: being women with ambitions in a place where it’s not always appreciated.
In Tel Aviv these women really exist, we just never heard from them until Maysaloun Hamoud directed Bar Bahar and gave them a voice through the characters of Laila, Salma, and Nour. Suppression is out on the street on a daily base and so is their strength to fight and not give up.
