Alila

After making two powerful period films dealing with Israel's turbulent past, filmmaker Amos Gitai returned to dramatic comedy with a film that could sit comfortably beside his "City Trilogy" — DEVARIM (1998), YOM YOM (1999) and KADOSH (1999) — which portray life in three major Israeli cities (Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem, respectively). Freely adapted from Yehoshua Kenaz's multicharacter novel Returning Last Loves, the film focuses on a run-down Tel Aviv apartment building wherein the lives of several tenants overlap, despite the efforts of a few to remain anonymous. One such tenant is Hezi (Amos Levie), a mysterious married man who uses the apartme...