Alila

Name: Alila
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: February 27, 2004
Duration: 123 min
Rating: 57

2004

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Kino International | Release Date: February 27, 2004

Summary: The story of over a dozen distinct characters who inhabit an apartment complex located in a rundown neighborhood of Tel Aviv, Israel. (Kino International)

Director: Amos Gitai

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Runtime: 123 min

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V.A. Musetto

Gitai's characters are meant to represent the Israeli people as a whole. Just as they question their lives, the filmmaker questions 21st-century Israel. Read full review

David Rooney

An ensemble drama laced with lighter moments that depicts the vitality, resilience and moral dilemmas of the people of Tel Aviv, the film is absorbing and at times moving. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Almost a comedy, though not an entirely successful one: It's too acerbic to be funny and too detached to be really moving. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

The film's drawback, and it is a serious one, is that few of its characters wear very well. The more we see them, the less they involve us and hold our interest, a situation not helped by the bombastic, theatrical style of acting a few of the performers have felt free to employ. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The movie...tries to juggle too many characters at once (its title means "story plot" in Hebrew), and in several cases their connections aren't adequately explained. Read full review

Ella Taylor

Though absorbing enough, Alila must be counted a noble failure, if only because its efforts to follow the screwed-up lives of 12 hapless souls in a seedy Tel Aviv apartment building finally add up more to mere mimicry than commentary. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Gitai's film is an interesting, if not entirely successful, adaptation of an excellent book. Read full review

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