Yossi & Jagger DVD – used Sale

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 the 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. 

English subtited