Alila (2003)
3.3 of 5 from 47 ratings
2h 3min
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- Synopsis:
The Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai is an acerbic social critic who likes to point fingers and pick at warts, and 'Alila,' his 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. Their residence, jerry-built in a dreary working-class section of Tel Aviv, is little more than a grubby housing development baking in the heat. Among the mostly unpleasant characters are Hezi, a secretive brute, and his besotted girlfriend. Another is a ruthless local builder whose sullen cream puff of a son deserts the army and hides out in the city's red-light district. Disgustedly observing the chaos is a doddering, ill-tempered Holocaust survivor. The filmmaker's jaundiced view of humanity is matched by his eye for the ugly. - Actors:
- Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner, Liron Levo, Ronit Elkabetz, Amos Lavi, Lupo Berkowitch, Yosef Carmon, Amit Mestechkin, Lyn Hsiao Zamir, Tomer Russo, Carmel Betto, Dalit Kahan, Kobi Zahavi, Eyal Elhadad
- Directors:
- Amos Gitai
- Writers:
- Amos Gitai, Yehoshua Kenaz
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama
- Countries:
- Israel
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