In Yom Yom, the second film in Amos Gitai's (Devarim, Kadosh) celebrated City TriIogy, Israel's preeminent writer-director weaves, "a darkly comic taIe of characters driven by divided IoyaIties and neurotic inhibitions" (Village Voice) in the mixed nationaIity Mediterranean port city of Haifa. Featuring a top-flight ensemble cast, incIuding multipIe Israeli Academy Award winner Moshe lvgy (Munich) and stage Iegend (and 20's UFA chiId star) Hanna Meron (M), Yom Yom is a film of unusual wit, grace and insight.
In spite of bIood ties to both Haifa's Jewish and Arab populations, Moshe (lvgy) Ieads a rootIess existence. Grown weary of his impatient wife Didi (Keren Mor) and ambivaIent about his needy young mistress Grisha (NataIi Atiya), the only reIationships Moshe doesn't compIicate are with his devoted parents, Jewish Hanna (Meron) and Arab Yussuf, and with Jules (JuIiano Mer), Moshe's ne'er-do-well childhood friend. But when JuIes' real estate developer brother moves to buy a prized piece of property from the Arab side of family, Moshe's divided ancestry is put to the test. As Moshe becomes entangIed in the hidden connections between friend, wife, lover, parent, Arab and Jew, Yom Yom, "exploits the comedy of Moshe's predicament without robbing the character of his dignity" (New York Times).
From boudoir to bakery to army barracks, "Gitai's genius," wrote the Village Voice "is to show the confIict infiItrating every encounter." Underneath its deadpan surface, Yom Yom is a film of incisiveness and energy that pIaces an individual face on a city's divided identity, and reveals face on a city's divided identity, and reveals the heart beneath anonymous modern ennui. |
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