Alila

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Alila

Released Feb 27, 2004

2h 1m

Drama

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Residents of (Yaël Abecassis, Uri Klauzner, Hanna Laslo) of an apartment building in the working-class section of Tel Aviv, Israel, go about their daily lives.

Peter Howell

Toronto Star

It's a bit of a mess.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 30, 2004

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

It's too acerbic to be funny and too detached to be really moving.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 30, 2004

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

The story and even the characters turn out to be less interesting than the overview it gives us of the way Israelis live now, its portrait of a dislocated society where despair rumbles beneath the surface of everyday life.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 10, 2004

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Gitai delivers an amazing film every bit as satisfying as his masterpiece Kippur (2001).

Feb 1, 2005

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Dennis Schwartz

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Suggesting that the strain of the Arab conflict has gotten to the Israelis and that peace might only be a pipe dream.

Rated: C+

Nov 24, 2004

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...Gitai has populated the story with one unlikable character after another, making it impossible for the viewer to connect with anything on screen.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 21, 2004

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though there felt a little distraction among the characters to characters but it passed well with its good cinematography.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail writes: "It's too acerbic to be funny and too detached to be really moving." I think it is a praise.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/03/23

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(*** 1/2): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] Extremely well-acted. A very good film.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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no clear indication of links between apparently random stories. if this is a cross-section of israeli life i might rethink making aliya! of course, I know better, given the other amazing pieces of cinema that has come out of that country capturing its essence. this just isn't one of them, despite having its moments.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Bizarre, fascinating. Maybe not as off kilter as the book it's based on.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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A series of random stories with no apparent link between them. Crappy players, poor and biased script, etc. Predictible, as Gitai always is. Being an Israeli should be a bore, following Amos indications.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Synopsis

Residents of (Yaël Abecassis, Uri Klauzner, Hanna Laslo) of an apartment building in the working-class section of Tel Aviv, Israel, go about their daily lives.

Director: Amos Gitai
Producer: Alain Mamou-Mani
Screenwriter: Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme
Distributor: Mongrel Media
Production Co: MP Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Hebrew
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 27, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 14, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $48.5K
Runtime: 2h 1m
Sound Mix: Surround

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