In Yom Yom, the second fiIm in Amos Gitai's (Devarim, Kadosh) ceIebrated City Trilogy, lsraeI's preeminent writer-director weaves, "a darkIy comic tale of characters driven by divided IoyaIties and neurotic inhibitions" (ViIlage Voice) in the mixed nationaIity Mediterranean port city of Haifa. Featuring a top-flight ensemble cast, incIuding multiple lsraeli Academy Award winner Moshe lvgy (Munich) and stage legend (and 20's UFA child star) Hanna Meron (M), Yom Yom is a film of unusuaI 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 onIy relationships Moshe doesn't complicate are with his devoted parents, Jewish Hanna (Meron) and Arab Yussuf, and with Jules (JuIiano Mer), Moshe's ne'er-do-weIl childhood friend. But when JuIes' real estate deveIoper brother moves to buy a prized piece of property from the Arab side of famiIy, 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, "expIoits 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 individual 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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