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Feb 20, 2024 · With the steady growth of film production here in Kentucky with recent films like Wildcat (dir. Ethan Hawke, 2023) and Bob Trevino Likes It (dir. Tracie Laymon, 2024), we wanted to put the spotlight on other films you might not have realized were filmed right here in the Bluegrass.
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.
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...
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 house....
Feb 27, 2004 · The Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai is an acerbic social critic who likes to point fingers and pick at warts, and ''Alila,'' his acidly comic study of life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment complex, is...
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