Yom Yom

In 1993, after ten years of self-imposed exile in France, director Amos Gitai returned home to Israel and began what came to be called "The City Trilogy," a remarkable group of feature-length fiction films set in three separate Israeli cities. This film, the second, is set in Gitai's hometown of Haifa, and it's simultaneously a portrait of city, a citizen and a country, all stumbling into an uneasy middle age. Moshe (Moshe Ivgi) is a neurotic, forty-something hypochondriac, in many ways still a child. His constant worries about his health preclude meaningful relationships with anyone other than his mother, Hanna (Hanna Maron), the doctor (Anne Petit-Lagrange) they sh...