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Yossi & Jagger (2002)

Starring: Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi Director: Eytan Fox Rating: R (Restricted) Format: DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (82 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen (II), Aya Steinovitz, Hani Furstenberg
  • Directors: Eytan Fox
  • Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
  • Language: Hebrew
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Strand Releasing
  • DVD Release Date: March 30, 2004
  • Run Time: 71 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (82 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001KNHAO
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #22,941 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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The moving Yossi & Jagger, at 65 minutes in length, has the focused impact and emotional clarity of a fine short story. A multiple award winner (among other prizes, Yossi & Jagger took a Best Actor honor for Ohad Knoller at the 2003 Tribeca Film Festival), this unusual love tale, set on a snowy Israeli-Lebanese border facing possible Hezbollah incursions, has an unexpected sweetness and buoyancy. Knoller plays square-jawed, no-nonsense Yossi, company commander of an Israeli Defense Forces unit exhausted from sleepless nights anticipating an ambush. The handsome, fun-loving Jagger (Yehuda Levi), nicknamed for his rock-star appeal, is platoon leader and, unknown to all, Yossi's secret lover. The two arrange trysts by going off together on missions, and while Jagger begs Yossi to leave the army when the former's service is up, Yossi reminds him that real life is not a romantic movie. Meanwhile, the platoon's other characters and a trio of visitors--a colonel (Sharon Reginiano) and his two female soldier-companions (Hani Furstenberg, Aya Koren)--prove to be a lot of fun sorting out everything from menus to love lives before their next, possibly lethal mission. Director Eytan Fox's naturalistic touch, and ability to highlight the expansiveness of mature love even in the most tragic and ironic of circumstances, is something to marvel at. --Tom Keogh


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Studio: Strand Releasing Release Date: 04/06/2006

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59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly moving, February 27, 2004
By F. Averick (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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I wasn't sure what to expect from this Israeli film about the love between two male soldiers, and I was pleasantly surprised by the humor and surprisingly moved by the clandestine love between uptight Yossi and the more free-spirited Jagger (called that because he looks and acts like a rock star).

The movie is fairly short--maybe a little over an hour--but it packs a lot in a that short time.

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78 of 87 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brothers in Arms, August 12, 2004
By Antyllus (London, UK) - See all my reviews
After a brief stint in Hollywood, director Eytan Fox returned to Israel and made this beautiful and passionate film which speaks through its simplicity. Though 65 minutes long, Yossi and Jagger captures the spirited elan and tensions of Israeli youths in the armed forces and presents certainly one of the most resonant film romances I have been fortunate enough to watch.

The film makes good use by perverting its own clichés with its characterisations and a predictable, sentimental story. The surprise is a truly touching portrait of youth on the front lines. In war some lose their limbs, some their minds and others their loves, only to be reborn. Yossi and Jagger doesn't wallow in it: it's fast moving; there's no time for preaching. Not until the film is over will you really start to consider its realities.

Yossi and Jagger makes no plea for any cause. That makes it immensely watchable. Here are two people in love, and other (unrequited) love interests, each with distinct personalities, frame that image, each character pushing its own personal objectives, whims, desires and dreams.

Ohad Knoller(stage credits) and popular Israeli tv star Yehuda Levi give excelling performances.

This movie essentially also delivers the pictorial completeness of David Kaplan's informative book: Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Units.

I also recommend Walk on Water by the same director.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't ask, don't tell..., February 15, 2005
Even in a country where there is no "don't ask, don't tell" policy, we see that reality shoves young lovers like Yossi and Jagger into the closet. Who needs written rules and regulations to make scared young gays hide their love for each other? But despite the unwritten law of silence, we see a slice of real society through a great cast of widely-ranging characters who all have different reactions.

Of course I adored the gay love story in and of itself! Yossi and Jagger are so cute and full of youthful liveliness and excitement for each other. Who wouldn't think back to living their own adolescent romance and all the enjoyment that brings?

But I think Yossi and Jagger is much more about everyone else's reactions to an unspoken "secret." The woman in love, the buddies in the barracks, a jealous soldier who hates one of the main characters, the military brass, the unknowing mother: they all live in close quarters and have the truth right before their eyes, and what is interesting about the movie is that some of them choose to see it and some of them don't. In the final scene, we see that gay people not only suffer from discrimination and secrecy, but also from having their whole life stories re-written and wrongly interpreted by the people around them, which is a tragedy in and of itself.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The perils of denial
The Isreali film Yossi and Jagger tells of two young men in the army, stuck in a lonely, confined outpost awaiting attack, and having to keep secret from the rest of the base,... Read more
Published 10 days ago by Mr. Peter Burch

5.0 out of 5 stars Yossi and Jagger
A beautiful sensitive story that digs into your heart. I just love films from Israel as they seem to capture the basic essence of every day life. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Mark Audie

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Story
The Director excelled at portraying all of the elements as ordinary. No attempts where made to hype the location, people or storyline. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mark

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and poignant.
Yossi and Jagger is the story of two IDF officers stationed on the Israeli-Lebanese border. It is set in a remote and beautiful location and despite the shortness of the film it... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Sarah

4.0 out of 5 stars Tracing the Eytan Fox filmography gets you here; 71 powerful minutes
If you work your way backwards in the Eytan Fox (aka, Eitan Fuchs) filmography, you'll end up here at Yossi and Jagger. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Andy Orrock

1.0 out of 5 stars WOW. This is a truly horrible film....
This was really painfully bad - the plot was terrible: simplistic, predictable and shallow. The acting was pretty terrible, too. Read more
Published 16 months ago by WAM4

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time
This was an awful movie in all respects. Bad acting, simple and boring plot, etc. It comes off as very amateurish. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Daniel

2.0 out of 5 stars thank God it was short
The only positive thing about *Yossi & Jagger* was that it was a short film, at 65 minutes.

After having watched a considerable amount of foreign films, I expected... Read more
Published 19 months ago by LARRY

2.0 out of 5 stars Just ok, not a movie worth rewatching
Short version

Pros:
1) Many themes: love, lust, sex, infidelity, promiscuity, homosexuality, heterosexuality, war, death

Cons:

1)... Read more
Published 19 months ago by K. Wilson

5.0 out of 5 stars Yossi and Jagger
I loved this tragic love story.Brilliant acting by the entire cast,Ohad Knoller and Yehuda Levy were outstanding!
Published 21 months ago by Virginia Soronow

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