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12 September 2003 (Italy)
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Slice-of-life look at the lives of twelve people who live or work in the same apartment complex in Tel Aviv. full summary | add synopsis
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Based On Novel
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introduction to israel 101
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Yaël Abecassis | ... | Gabi | |
| Hana Laszlo | ... | Mali | |
| Uri Klauzner | ... | Ezra (as Uri Ran Klauzner) | |
| Ronit Elkabetz | ... | Ronit | |
| Amos Lavi | ... | Hezi (as Amos Lavie) | |
| Lupo Berkowitch | ... | Aviram | |
| Liron Levo | ... | Ilan | |
| Yosef Carmon | ... | Schwartz | |
| Amit Mestechkin | ... | Eyal | |
| Lyn Hsiao Zamir | ... | Linda | |
| Tomer Russo | ... | Officer | |
| Carmel Betto | ... | Carmel | |
| Dalit Kahan | ... | Sharon | |
| Kobi Zahavi | ... | Kiosk owner | |
| Eyal Elhadad | ... | Locksmith |
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Canada:122 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:123 min | Argentina:123 min | Canada:116 min (Ontario)
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this is a film that tries to criticize Israel's public morality.It addresses several issues such as: fornication, racism, immigration,national pride and allegiance to state ideals.both female protagonists have sexual encounters that are outside the norm.The one ends up in grief and the other one is dismissed as insignificant.The Arabs receive pejorative characterizations many times through out the film.the Chinese immigrants sleep in a van they are entities that the state refuse to recognize but they serve as cheap labor for the Israeli civilians, they wonder around freely in the streets of tel-aviv and they don't get deported because of corruption of the police.The boy wants to flee from the army and seems to express a form of indignation towards it's country.Sporadically we are informed about various conflicts between Israeli-Palestinians, suicide attacks, political controversy, etc.Apparently for Gitai Israel is in a state of turmoil, THE OLD GODS ARE DEAD and the new ones are not yet present, in other words Israel is in a transitional state. Cinematically speaking some of the vignettes are interesting and some extremely clichéd and boring, some they last too much time especially some sex scenes.the acting overall is good.It is a pity because Gitai tried to achieve a social commentary towards his country and also to portray some dramatic tension and i think he was lame in both of them.But i recognize his noble intentions so i will give his next film a try if can get hold of it here in Greece.