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| Title | Yossi & Jagger aka Yossi VeJager |
Year | 2002 | |||||||||
| Director | Eytan Fox | Writer | Avner Bernheimer | |||||||||
| Country | Israel | Language | Hebrew with English subtitles | |||||||||
| Cast | Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen, Aya Steinovitz, Hani Furstenberg, Sharon Raginiano, Yuval Semo, Yaniv Moyal, Hanan Savyon, Erez Kahana, Omri Givon, Roy Levi, Eran Shiran, Nadav Davidi, Sason Zehavi, Elad Amar, Shmulik Bernheimer, Yael Pearl - Beker | |||||||||||
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Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger portrays the love affair of two Israeli officers in an IDF position on the Israeli-Lebanese border. They are commanders, they are in love, and they try to find a place of their own in an oppressing and rigid system, which sends them to defend a cause they do not necessarily believe in.
Yossi, the company commander, is an introvert guy and largely a man-of-the-system. Jagger, the platoon commander, is an open and much more liberated guy. He is the star of the company. Yossi is determined to keep their love in secret. Whereas, Jagger, who is about to finish the service, believes that Yossi should leave the army with him. Shortly before departing for a dangerous ambush, the tension between the lovers gets high almost explosive.
Yossi & Jagger portrays the tragic structure of life of young Israelis today. The film presents an enchanting ensemble of young men and women that were supposed, in this time of their lives, to dance, study and love. Instead, due to the mandatory army service and the complicated situation in the region, they have to devote their most beautiful years to their country, to be soldiers, to kill and get killed.
In Yossi & Jagger you can find a chef who finds comfort in cooking a gourmet cuisine, a soldier who believes in reincarnation, and two young women who try to survive in a men's world. By showing the apparently small details of the commanders' and soldiers' lives, the film creators emphasize the distorted situation in which these men and women are forced to live and die.
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Synopsis from Official site |
Yossi & Jagger portrays in a courageous, genuine, amusing and sometines painful fashion the complicated and sensative topic of "gays in the military". |
Yossi and Jagger are lovers. They are also both male, and soldiers in the Israeli army. Aside from "Bent"'s Nazi concentration camp, a less hospitable setting for a homosexual love story can hardly be imagined.
This is a relationship clearly destined for tragedy and, small surprise, tragedy strikes. That one soldier will die in the arms of the other is almost a foregone conclusion, and that near-inevitability makes for a lack of suspense that could stop some films dead in their tracks. In addition, the film is somewhat crude technically: psuedo-verite hand-held camera work, some choppy editing, a soundtrack that sometimes sounds as if it's being played on a boom-box.
What finally makes "Yossi & Jagger" so appealing, so affecting, so well worth spending 67 minutes of one's life watching it, is the acting. Ohad Knoller as the spit-and-polish, by-the-book Yossi, and especially the utterly charming Yehuda Levi as the softer, borderline-flamboyant Jagger, bring their respective characters to vivid life.
The chemistry between the two makes the relationship wonderfully believable, either watching the two young men's snowball fight segue into an exchange of tender looks and kisses, or later as Yossi clumsily attempts to make peace following a quarrel, the usually ebullient Jagger tight-lipped and stiff.
Aya Koren brings a fresh-faced sweetness to Yaeli, a pretty female officer with an unrequited crush on Jagger. Hani Furstenberg as Yaeli's gal-pal Goldie, puts a highly individual stamp on a somewhat stereotypical bad-girl-with-heart-of-gold role.
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Review by Larry Duplechan |
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