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Alila is a 2003 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai and starring Yaël Abecassis, Uri Klauzner, and Hanna Laslo. The drama follows half a dozen very different characters through their lives in modern-day Israel, giving Gitai an opportunity to comment on his country's top social issues.
In Tel Aviv, gloomy Ezra hires foreign workers without permits to build an addition to a homely block of flats where his ex-wife Mali lives with her current lover Ilan. Ezra and Mali's young son Eyal hates the army and is AWOL, living among prostitutes and drug dealers.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Amos Gitai
Oct 23, 2003 · Shot in one of Tel Aviv's more disreputable neighbourhoods, taken over by foreign illegal workers, the picture follows the comings and goings of the inhabitants in one dilapidated old...
Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover Hezi—who's older, balding and married—rent a room to have an affair, while Ezra, a pot bellied divorcee, supervises an illegal construction site next door. All this racket drives Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, to a mental breakdown.
Sep 19, 2003 · Sep 18, 2003 6:41pm PT. Alila. Amos Gitai chooses a turbulent time in his country's history to make a sociological, less overtly political film. An ensemble drama laced with lighter moments that...
In his latest film, a visually powerful ensemble drama, renowned Israeli director Amos Gitai brings us a microcosm of Israeli society in unusually intimate -- nearly claustrophobic -- detail.
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