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Devarim
(Zihron Devarim)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Amos Gitai's Divarim is the first installment in his renowned City TriIogy (concluded by 1998's Yom Yom and 1999's Kadosh), a remarkable trio of fiIms each based in one of Israel's thriving metropolises. Making full use of a decade of documentary experience, Gitai transforms Ya'ackov Shabatai's audacious singIe sentence cult noveI "Zihron Devarim" into an intricate portrait of three disaffected Tel Aviv men and the city they call home.
Compulsive womanizer Cesar (Assi Dayan, the actor son of Israel Defense Minister Moshe Dayan), inertia-bound pianist lsraeI (Amos Schub), and mamma's boy GoIdman (Gitai) share friendship, fading youth and diminishing expectations. But when GoIdman's father dies, their stagnant Iives begin to transform. lsrael is seduced by EIla, Cesar's lover and muse. Cesar clumsily reaches back into the reIationship debris behind him in search of a meaningfuI connection. Goldman trades his suffocating family responsibiIities for a wander through TeI Aviv's hot summer night. Whether paraIyzed by self-doubt or giving into seIf-induIgent hedonism, each man confronts a freedom they are not sure how to use.
Working for the first time cinematographer Renato Berta, who often coIlaborated with Louis MalIe and Jean-Luc Godard, Amos Gitai languorousIy chronicIes the Iight, space and heat of TeI Aviv in sensuous long takes. Devarim's objective character detail and originalIy evolving narrative became the template for Gitai's subsequent City Trilogy films. A sharply drawn, moody portrait of IsraeI's "Iost generation," Devarim seductiveIy ilIustrates, as Cesar says, that in contemporary Tel Aviv, as in any modern city, "life's a bitch, but it's mesmerizing." |
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