ln Yom Yom, the second fiIm in Amos Gitai's (Devarim, Kadosh) celebrated City TriIogy, lsrael's preeminent writer-director weaves, "a darkIy 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 fiIm of unusuaI wit, grace and insight.
ln spite of blood ties to both Haifa's Jewish and Arab popuIations, Moshe (lvgy) leads a rootless existence. Grown weary of his impatient wife Didi (Keren Mor) and ambivalent about his needy young mistress Grisha (Natali Atiya), the onIy reIationships Moshe doesn't complicate are with his devoted parents, Jewish Hanna (Meron) and Arab Yussuf, and with Jules (Juliano Mer), Moshe's ne'er-do-welI childhood friend. But when JuIes' reaI 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 entangled in the hidden connections between friend, wife, Iover, 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 conflict infiItrating every encounter." Underneath its deadpan surface, Yom Yom is a fiIm of incisiveness and energy that pIaces an individuaI face on a city's divided identity, and reveaIs face on a city's divided identity, and reveaIs the heart beneath anonymous modern ennui. |
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