Yossi & Jagger

Yossi & Jagger
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 7 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 30, 2004
  • Originally Released: 2003
  • Label: Strand Home Video

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 3,398
Rating: B -- introduces a number of very human characters that we grow to care about Full Review
Old School Reviews
Apr 14, 2004
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Yossi & Jagger says a lot and is well worth an hour of your time, but you'll walk away thinking it could have said more. Full Review
Filmcritic.com
Apr 5, 2004
Rating: 3/4 -- Nothing happens in Yossi & Jagger that you couldn't have seen coming toward you in a fog. There are coincidences, hurt feelings, and more -- but what the movie lacks in ambition, originality, and grit, it makes up for in pure feeling. Full Review
Boston Globe
Mar 5, 2004
Rating: 2/4 -- It's too lean to deserve marquee billing.
Detroit Free Press
Mar 19, 2004
Rating: 3/4 -- In the film's spare running time, director Eytan Fox strips away almost anything that doesn't present a dichotomy of conflict. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Apr 5, 2004
Rating: 3/4 -- A searing, tense and beautifully told film.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mar 18, 2004
Rating: 3/4 -- Modern Romeos and Juliets need to mix things up, and this one freshens the pot with a tone that sucks us in with raucous comedy and then gets deadly serious.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Mar 4, 2004

Product Description:

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 26,092
  • UPC: 712267230228
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