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Mood:
- EmotionalSincereBittersweet
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Plot:
- Gays and LesbiansSoldierUnlikely CoupleForbidden LoveLove AffairMilitary LifeGenderLove and Romance more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceForeignMelodrama
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- IsraelMilitary Base
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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Based on:
- Based on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Sexual Content
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Yossi & Jagger, 2002
Hebrew
Israel
Profile of Yossi & Jagger
Yossi & Jagger can be described as emotional, sincere, and bittersweet. The plot revolves around forbidden love, an unlikely couple, and military life. The main genres are drama, foreign, and romance. In terms of style, Yossi & Jagger is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, on a military base. Yossi & Jagger is located in Israel. It takes place in contemporary times. It is originally a true story. Yossi & Jagger has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it involves sexual content.
Summary of Yossi & Jagger
An Israeli military outpost serves as the staging ground for this theatrical and tragic love story between Yossi (Ohad Knoller) and Jagger (Yehuda Levi), young soldiers in the Israeli army. Yossi, the stolid captain of the outpost, and Jagger, nicknamed after the Rolling Stones front man, are lovers, but they struggle to hide their relationship from the rest of the troop. Private excursions through snowy trails serve to camouflage their trysts, but Jagger becomes dissatisfied with their secrecy, adding tension to this dynamic short film. Unlike action-oriented war movies, Yossi & Jagger focuses more on the mundane activities of military service--scenes of ditch-digging, cooking, snowball fights, and an ad-hoc outpost dance party born from boredom and anxiety figure largely in the film--resulting in a realistic and less sensationalist account of war. Because the soldiers never identify the enemy by name, barely mentioning the existence of one at all, the viewer may speculate if their enemy is real, or is perhaps even the soldiers themselves. Eventually, however, they are called upon to ambush this invisible and unidentified enemy, and the film shifts gears, providing us with the violence a war always brings. But the combat yields an ironic and fatal twist, one quite unlike the American films that Yossi and Jagger frequently satirize.
Details
| Language: | Hebrew |
| Country: | Israel |
| Release date: | 18 May 2003 |
| Runtime: | 65 min |
Cast and Crew
as Yossi
as Lior Amichai 'Jagger'
Photos
Critics Reviews
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Kevin Thomas
Chicago Tribune
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- by: Allison Benedikt
Users Reviews
- 11.October.2008
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- by: ani
- ani rated this movie6/10Okay
- 06.October.2008
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- by: regina.falangy
- regina.falangy rated this movie
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