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Oshri Cohen, right, plays Shlomi and Aya Koren portrays Rona in the Israeli film
"Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi."

ture films and is now on the faculty of
the Sam Spiegel Film and Television
College in Jerusalem.
"I think the theme of Bonjour is the
contrast between a person's outer image
and his inner truth, and that is some-
thing that has always interested me," he
said. "It takes two outsiders to open
Shlomi's eyes to who he really is." ❑

When his grandparents assumed cus-
tody two years later, they attempted to
curb his wild behavior by enrolling him
in a highly structured Jewish day school.
"But I didn't have the attention span to
sit through the long day or to retain a
new language, Hebrew," he said. "I was a
mess of a child already at 6."
It didn't help that Caouette felt like an
alien while visiting his classmates' pris-
tine Jewish homes. "Our house had gum
all over the floor, like a New York sub-
way, and rat droppings all over the
beds," he said. His wealthy Jewish rela-
tives eventually stopped inviting him to
holiday celebrations.
The discord turned Caouette into an
angry preteen who staged suicide
attempts and hit his grandparents. After
smoking PCP-laced joints at 12, he was
hospitalized eight times for a depersonal-
ization disorder that made him feel like
he was disconnected from his body and
living "in a constant state of unreality."
Former Houston Chronicle film critic
Jeff Millar, who became Caouette's big
brother in 1984, remembers walking
through his home and noting "broken
mirrors and holes where Jon had
punched through the wall.
"I felt he might be capable of making
a bad decision that could kill him,"
Miller said. "But I also saw that he was
innately talented and that he had a rigor-

Bonjour, Monsieur Shlomi, in
Hebrew with English subtitles, is
scheduled to open Friday, Oct.
22, at Landmark's Maple Art
Theatre in Bloomfield Township.
Check your local movie listings.
(248) 263-2111.

ous film aesthetic. I felt that if he man-
aged to get through what was sure to be
a troubling adolescence, he would do
something creatively spectacular."
Caouette proved Millar right two years
ago, when he decided to turn his 160
hours of home video into a film. He had
nursed Renee back to health after a lithi-
um overdose and hoped to create a
cathartic piece about their relationship.
An early version of the movie con-
vinced filmmakers John Cameron
Mitchell and Gus Van Sant to sign on as
executive producers and secured a slot at
New York's 2003 MIX Film Festival. But
as Caouette sat next to Renee at the
screening, he worried he had made a ter-
rible mistake.
"I wondered if I had exploited her,
exploited all of us," he said.
As patrons embraced him after the
screening, Caouette began to change his
mind. He now views the movie as a
healing trip to Tarnation and back "It's
the story of people going through hell
and coming out OK, sort of," he said.
"It's still not entirely OK, but it's better
than it's ever been." ❑

Tarnation screens 7 and 9:30
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and 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15-17,
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