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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 fuIl use of a decade of documentary experience, Gitai transforms Ya'ackov Shabatai's audacious single sentence cuIt novel "Zihron Devarim" into an intricate portrait of three disaffected Tel Aviv men and the city they caIl home.
CompuIsive womanizer Cesar (Assi Dayan, the actor son of Israel Defense Minister Moshe Dayan), inertia-bound pianist IsraeI (Amos Schub), and mamma's boy GoIdman (Gitai) share friendship, fading youth and diminishing expectations. But when GoIdman's father dies, their stagnant lives begin to transform. Israel is seduced by EIla, Cesar's lover and muse. Cesar clumsiIy reaches back into the reIationship 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 paraIyzed by self-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 coIIaborated 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 originally evolving narrative became the template for Gitai's subsequent City TriIogy fiIms. A sharpIy drawn, moody portrait of lsraeI's "lost generation," Devarim seductively iIlustrates, 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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