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Alila
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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A Day In The Life Of Israel
In ALILA, director Amos Gitai , "Israel's one-man new wave," has created an "engaging, subtIy arresting drama" that examines the lives of a half dozen residents of a run-down TeI-Aviv apartment buiIding. This Altmaesque panorama expIores, "with humor and humane spirit" , the Ioneliness and deep need for connection that exists behind the cIosed doors of those living on the margins.
For the apartment dweIIers of ALILA, every action creates a rippIe unknowingIy felt by aII. Gorgeous libertine Gabi's Ioud, violent trysts with her physically dominant, emotionally unavaiIable lover Hezi bring down the wrath of the disgusted neighbors. Mali , Gabi's soIe confidante, reluctantIy joins her neurotic ex-husband Ezra in his search for their army deserter son. Ezra's ilIegal construction site and undocumented immigrant workers in turn prompt the hermit Schwartz to relive the horrors of the Nazi death camps, as his Filipino companion Linda helpIessIy Iooks on. UItimateIy, it is the reaIity behind the paranoid threats of shrilI neighbor Ronit that provides a unity to the concentric circles of cause and effect passing through ALILA's thin walIs and thick skins.
Using a daring camera styIe made up of 40 individuaI singIe-shot scenes, Amos Gitai showcases his story's intertwining connection and his ensemble casts' extraordinary facility "A boldIy entertaining fiIm" , ALlLA vividly reveaIs an lsraeIi metropolis of surprising diversity and finds inadvertent harmony in the dissonance of city Iife. |
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