Alila
August Auteurs
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1h 56m
Directed by Amos Gitai • Arthouse • 2004 • Israel, France • Hebrew, English w/ English subtitles
Starring Yaël Abecassis, Hana Laszlo, Uri Klauzner, Liron Levo, Tomer Russo
Amos Gitai's ensemble film examines the lives of a half dozen residents of a run-down Tel-Aviv apartment building. For the apartment dwellers, every action creates a ripple unknowingly felt by all. “Alila” reveals an Israeli metropolis of surprising diversity and finds inadvertent harmony in the dissonance of city life.
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