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Yossi
Ha-Sippur Shel Yossi
Directed by
Eytan Fox
Produced by Eytan Fox, Leon Edery, Moshe Edery, Amir Harel, and Ayelet Kait
Written by Itay Segal
Produced by Eytan Fox, Leon Edery, Moshe Edery, Amir Harel, and Ayelet Kait
Written by Itay Segal
With:
Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi, Orly Silbersatz Banai, Ola Schur Selektar, Meir Golan, Shlomi Ben Attar, Amir Jerassi, Raffi Tavor, Shlomo Sadan, Gil Desiano, Keren Ann, Bobbi Jean Smith, and Nuria Lusinzky
Cinematography:
Guy Raz
Editing: Yosef Grunfeld
Music: Keren Ann
Editing: Yosef Grunfeld
Music: Keren Ann
Runtime:
84 min
Release Date: 17 May 2012
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Color: Color
Release Date: 17 May 2012
Aspect Ratio: 1.78 : 1
Color: Color
Yossi, or Ha-Sippur Shel
Yossi, is director Eytan Fox’s sequel to his 2002 TV film Yossi
and Jagger, a romantic drama about two gay Israeli solders. One
need not have seen the original movie to be swept up in the simple and
affecting story of Yossi, who is now a closeted 34-year-old cardiologist unable
to enjoy life after the death of his one true love. The film beautifully
explores the life of a shy, sad, lonely gay man living in Tel Aviv, and Ohad
Knoller plays the title role with a touching vulnerability that makes him immensely
relatable, even though his character is so withdrawn and passive. The film captures the grief, lack of
direction, and numbness that the loss of love can instill, and though the
ending of Yossi feels a bit out of step from the rest of the picture,
for the most part it is a moving and universal story about the struggle to
overcome heartbreak.