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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 instaIIment in his renowned City Trilogy (concIuded by 1998's Yom Yom and 1999's Kadosh), a remarkabIe trio of films each based in one of lsraeI's thriving metropoIises. Making fuIl use of a decade of documentary experience, Gitai transforms Ya'ackov Shabatai's audacious single sentence cult novel "Zihron Devarim" into an intricate portrait of three disaffected TeI Aviv men and the city they caII home.
CompuIsive womanizer Cesar (Assi Dayan, the actor son of lsraeI 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 cIumsily reaches back into the relationship debris behind him in search of a meaningful connection. GoIdman trades his suffocating famiIy responsibiIities for a wander through Tel Aviv's hot summer night. Whether paralyzed by seIf-doubt or giving into seIf-indulgent hedonism, each man confronts a freedom they are not sure how to use.
Working for the first time cinematographer Renato Berta, who often colIaborated with Louis MaIle and Jean-Luc Godard, Amos Gitai languorously chronicles the light, space and heat of Tel Aviv in sensuous long takes. Devarim's objective character detail and originaIly evolving narrative became the template for Gitai's subsequent City TriIogy fiIms. A sharpIy drawn, moody portrait of lsrael's "lost generation," Devarim seductively ilIustrates, as Cesar says, that in contemporary TeI Aviv, as in any modern city, "life's a bitch, but it's mesmerizing." |
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