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Starts with "why?"
The pointless "Yom Yom" is a letdown from the director of "Kadosh" and "Kippur."
By JOSHUA TANZER
Offoffoff.com
Never has a little sex and violence been so desperately needed as in the Israeli film "Yom Yom." The film by Amos Gitai follows a day or two in the life of a half-Jewish, half_Arab Israeli, Moshe, whose day consists of: eating, bickering with his wife, hanging out with his friend Jul, doing a little light military-reserve duty, having sex with his mistress, begging a loan shark for money, gambling, and pretending to help his parents run their bakery. This may sound like a full day, but it's an exercise in pointlessness to watch him live it and only the sex and violence interrupts the tedium.
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| YOM YOM | Directed by: Amos Gitai.
Written by: Amos Gitai, Jackie Cukier.
Cast: Moshe Ivgi, Juliano Mer, Samuel Calderon, Gassan Abbas, Keren Mor, Irit Gidron, David Cohen, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Natali Atiya, Dalit Kahan, Hanna Meron.
In Hebrew with English subtitles.
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"Yom Yom" has no narrative sense and offers essentially no reason for following this particular character through life. Moshe is a middle-aged man who's squandering every day of his life, but he's not even interesting as a slacker. He's certainly not interesting as a half-Jew half_Arab, despite the seemingly dramatic possibilities of that situation.
The only truly interesting people in the ensemble are Moshe's parents, and it should
have been a film about them. This is a stunning disappointment from the director of
"Kadosh" — one of the
best films I saw last year — and the interesting
cinema-verite war picture "Kippur," both released here last year. "Yom Yom" is premiering
as part of a Gitai retrospective which at least offers a chance to see the some much better
films than this one.
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FEBRUARY 22, 2001
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