The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)

The Red Sea Diving Resort: Directed by Gideon Raff. With Mbulelo Grootboom, Sizo Mahlangu, Michael Kenneth Williams, Masasa Mbangeni. Israel’s Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1979.

“Movies dealing with an exodus in the direction of the Holy Land are plethoric. I think in particular about u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/title/tt0053804/\u003eExodus (1960)u003c/au003e with u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/name/nm0000056/\u003ePaul Newmanu003c/au003e and directed by u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/name/nm0695937/\u003eOtto Premingeru003c/au003e and then about u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/title/tt0388505/\u003eVa, vis et deviens (2005)u003c/au003e as heartbreaking as moving. u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/title/tt4995776/\u003eOperation Brothers (2019)u003c/au003e is clearly a popcorn version of a real mission organized by the Mossad in order to secretly evacuate Ethiopians who have fled their native country in complete food crisis, via an abandoned Sudanese hotel, the Red Sea Diving Resort.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBy being slightly in bad faith, the expedition looks a bit like Captain America with his team of Avengers saving Ethiopians undeservingly persecuted by Sudanese. But the director u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/name/nm1356268/\u003eGideon Raffu003c/au003e skillfully avoided falling into these clichés and the film is globally successful, although we are very far from a cinematographic masterpiece. I particularly appreciated the performance of u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/name/nm1663252/\u003eChris Chalku003c/au003e, u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/name/nm0001427/\u003eGreg Kinnearu003c/au003e and u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/name/nm0001426/\u003eBen Kingsleyu003c/au003e who highlight the intergalactic star u003ca class=ipc-md-link ipc-md-link–entity href=/name/nm0262635/\u003eChris Evansu003c/au003e.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePS: I remain stunned by the sterile duel between the two extremist groups « 10 of 10 » versus « 1 of 10 » who represent, on August the 1st, more than a third of the votes.”