In Tel Aviv, the gloomy Ezra hires foreign workers without permits to build an addition to a homely block of flats where his ex-wife Mali lives with her current lover Ilan. Ezra and Mali's young son Eyal hates the army and is AWOL, living among prostitutes and drug dealers. Gabi, a beautiful young woman who's a friend of Mali's, is carrying on an affair with Hezi, an older man insisting on secrecy. Hezi rents an apartment at the building for their trysts. Neighbors complain a... (Full plot summary below)
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In Tel Aviv, the gloomy Ezra hires foreign workers without permits to build an addition to a homely block of flats where his ex-wife Mali lives with her current lover Ilan. Ezra and Mali's young son Eyal hates the army and is AWOL, living among prostitutes and drug dealers. Gabi, a beautiful young woman who's a friend of Mali's, is carrying on an affair with Hezi, an older man insisting on secrecy. Hezi rents an apartment at the building for their trysts. Neighbors complain about the noise of their lovemaking and of the construction. Lives revolve slowly one around another. "Everyone's out for himself," says Ezra of Israeli society. Suicide bombings and elections provide a backdrop.
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| E! OnlineE! StaffAnother piece of essential viewing for outsiders trying to understand life in the Middle East. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThough 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. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonGitai delivers an amazing film every bit as satisfying as his masterpiece Kippur (2001). |
| Jam! MoviesBruce KirklandFor all its flaws, Alila is an interesting social issue film. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...Gitai has populated the story with one unlikable character after another, making it impossible for the viewer to connect with anything on screen. |
| Boxoffice MagazineSheri LindenFor non-Israeli audiences, Alila is an alternately illuminating and confounding glimpse into seldom-seen aspects of the country. |
| TV GuideKen FoxGitai's film is an interesting, if not entirely successful, adaptation of an excellent book. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenThe 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. |
| User ReviewLynleyShimat LBizarre, fascinating. Maybe not as off kilter as the book it's based on. |
| User ReviewKhondaker HLiam Lacey, Globe and Mail writes: "It's too acerbic to be funny and too detached to be really moving." I think it is a praise. |
