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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