Alila
Alila is a 2003 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Yal Abecassis, Uri Klauzner, and Hanna Laslo. The drama follows half a dozen very different characters through their lives in modern day Israel, giving Gitai an opportunity to comment on his countrys top social issues.
Instead of written credits at the beginning of the film, Gitai reads out the credits, introduces himself to the viewer, and explains that Alila is based on the novel Returning Lost Love. The rest of the movie is made up of forty individual single shot scenes depicting the lives of several Israelis. The characters lives overlap and collide. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover Heziwhos older, balding and marriedrent a room to have an affair, while Ezra, a pot bellied divorcee, supervises an illegal construction site next door. All this racket drives Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, to a mental breakdown. Other characters include illegal immigrants, a teenage boy whos afraid to serve in the army, and a corrupt police officer. In each scene the camera moves through walls, over desks, and around rooms in order to keep focused on the character its following, in moments of drama as well as in moments of mudane daily activity.Alila received mostly mixed reviews, with a score of 57 on Metacritic and a 41 rotten rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is said to have an Altmanesque fabric and a Kiarostamian spirit ........
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