YOSSI & JAGGER d: Eytan Fox
Yossi & Jagger (2002)
Direction: Eytan Fox
Screenplay: Avner Bernheimer
Cast: Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen, Aya Steinovitz, Hani Furstenberg, Sharon Raginiano, Yuval Semo, Yaniv Moyal, Hanan Savyon
Yossi & Jagger is a tragic love story set in a most unlikely place: an Israeli army camp. Directed by Eytan Fox from a screenplay by Avner Bernheimer, Yossi & Jagger is what the much more publicized, more elaborate, more expensive, and ultimately inferior Brokeback Mountain is supposed to be: A subversive film (not surprisingly, the Israeli army refused to give any assistance to the filmmakers) that shows soldiers, whether male or female, who seem as eager to fight a war as they are to, say, kneel over and vomit, and gay [...]
by Andre Soares | January 5, 2006
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Tags: Eytan Fox, Four-Star Gay Movies, Four-Star Movies, Gay Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Ohad Knoller, Political Movies, Romantic Movies, Yehuda Levi, Yossi and Jagger
Best Films – 2002
A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted by director François Ozon and Marina de Van, from Robert Thomas’ play), this murder musical is dotted with 8 of the brightest stars of the French cinema of the last 7 (!) decades.
More than seventy years after her film début, Danielle Darrieux, in full form both as an actress and as a singer, joins [...]
by Andre Soares | June 13, 2005
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Tags: About a Boy, Alberto Iglesias, Avner Bernheimer, Best Films, Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Doyle, Christopher Hampton, Classic Movies, Conrad L. Hall, Daniel Day-Lewis, Danielle Darrieux, David Hare, Dennis Quaid, Eytan Fox, Fanny Ardant, Gangs of New York, Henry Thomas, Hero, Isabelle Huppert, Jay Cocks, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Kenneth Lonergan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Michael Ballhaus, Michael Caine, Nicole Kidman, Ohad Knoller, Paul Newman, Pawel Edelman, Philip Glass, Road to Perdition, Stephen Daldry, Steven Zaillian, Tan Dun, The Hours, Thomas Newman, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Virginie Ledoyen, Wedigo von Schultzendorff, Yehuda Levi
