Alila

Alila
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  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 9, 2004
  • Originally Released: 2004
  • Label: Kino Video

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Rating: 3/4 -- Gitai ... records the comings and goings with a keen eye.
New York Post
Feb 27, 2004
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Amos Gitai's acidly comic study of life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex is a sour urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces.
New York Times
Feb 26, 2004
Rating: 3/5 -- For all its flaws, Alila is an interesting social issue film.
Jam! Movies
Jul 30, 2004
None of the characters or situations truly manages to hold our attention, though there are some arresting moments.
Hollywood Reporter
Mar 4, 2004
Rating: 3/5 -- The story and even the characters turn out to be less interesting than the overview it gives us of the way Israelis live now, its portrait of a dislocated society where despair rumbles beneath the surface of everyday life. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Jun 10, 2004
Rating: 2.5/5 -- For non-Israeli audiences, Alila is an alternately illuminating and confounding glimpse into seldom-seen aspects of the country. Full Review
Boxoffice Magazine
Jun 10, 2004
Rating: 2/5 -- It's a bit of a mess. Full Review
Toronto Star
Jul 30, 2004

Product Description:

Amos Gitai paints a vivid, gritty portrait of life in modern-day Israel with this multi-character study of intertwining lives in and around a Tel Aviv apartment complex. Ezra (Uri Klauzner) is a building contractor who sleeps in his van with his illegal Asian immigrant workers outside his ex-wife Mali's (Hanna Laslo) door while building an extension to the building, much to the annoyance of the elderly residents, one of whom is a concentration camp survivor. Meanwhile, the son of Ezra and Mali, Eyali (Amit Mestechkin) runs away from his mandatory stint in the Israeli army and Mali's friend, the beautiful, troubled Gabi (Yael Abecassis) has a rendezvous with her married lover Hezi (Amos Lavie) for some loud, torrid sex scenes in one of the rooms. The camerawork here is first rate, capturing the action in a series of extended single takes separated by fadeouts with the camera moving through, inside and out of the apartment building and elsewhere in Tel Aviv, capturing the city's rundown vibe. Director-writer Gitai adds a voice-over to the credits in one of the film's many unusual touches. A prolific chronicler of Israeli life whose films include KADOSH (2000) and KIPPUR (2000), Gitai gives his actors a lot of room to improvise, and the performances in ALILA are generally strong, with the lovely Abecassis a standout. The story is based on a book by Yehoshua Kenaz.

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  • Sales Rank: 75,024
  • UPC: 738329035228
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