Yossi & Jagger
by Eytan Fox
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Actor: Assi Cohen (II), Aya Steinovitz, Hani Furstenberg, Ohad Knoller, Yehuda LeviDirector: Eytan Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Hebrew (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 71 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Strand Releasing
Movie Reviews of Yossi & Jagger
Movie Review: WOW. This is a truly horrible film....
Summary: 1 Stars
This was really painfully bad - the plot was terrible: simplistic, predictable and shallow. The acting was pretty terrible, too. It really resembled a Cold War-era student film project. The ending was particularly bizarre...after everything that had happened (the main character loses his lover in battle), you HOPED you'd see a little depth to him, perhaps see him look back and appreciate his lost partner in a new way. Instead, you watch him sit at the guy's wake and sort of smirk knowlingly, while the grieving family talks about their closeted dead son's life, not realizing that he was this guy's lover. He sort of shrugs and smiles, as if he'd just gotten a flat tire or something, but now he's over it. Oh, and on top of all this, there isn't even anyone particularly attractive in the film. DON'T BOTHER.
Summary of Yossi & Jagger
The moving Yossi & Jagger, at 65 minutes in length, has the focused impact and emotional clarity of a fine short story. A multiple award winner (among other prizes, Yossi & Jagger took a Best Actor honor for Ohad Knoller at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival), this unusual love tale, set on a snowy Israeli-Lebanese border facing possible Hezbollah incursions, has an unexpected sweetness and buoyancy. Knoller plays square-jawed, no-nonsense Yossi, company commander of an Israeli Defense Forces unit exhausted from sleepless nights anticipating an ambush. The handsome, fun-loving Jagger (Yehuda Levi), nicknamed for his rock-star appeal, is platoon leader and, unknown to all, Yossi's secret lover. The two arrange trysts by going off together on missions, and while Jagger begs Yossi to leave the army when the former's service is up, Yossi reminds him that real life is not a romantic movie. Meanwhile, the platoon's other characters and a trio of visitors--a colonel (Sharon Reginiano) and his two female soldier-companions (Hani Furstenberg, Aya Koren)--prove to be a lot of fun sorting out everything from menus to love lives before their next, possibly lethal mission. Director Eytan Fox's naturalistic touch, and ability to highlight the expansiveness of mature love even in the most tragic and ironic of circumstances, is something to marvel at. --Tom KeoghArt House & International DVD Video
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