Original title
Yossi
Director
Eytan Fox
Country
Israel
Cast
Ohad Knoller
Lior Ashkenazi
Orly Silbersatz
Oz Zehavi
Production
Lama Films
Distribution
Films Distribution
Genre
Drama
Music
Keren Ann
Duration
84'
Year
2012
Festivals
Copenhagen (MIX)
Gothenburg
Hong Kong (LGBT Film Festival)
Istanbul (independent cinema)
Los Angeles
Rio de Janeiro
Paris (LGBT Film Festival)
Tribeca
First showing in
Spain
Official Section: FEATURE films
Ten years after the extraordinary Yossi & Jagger, Israeli director Eytan Fox opens a time window. Yossi Hoffman has matured: the war veteran is now a dedicated cardiologist, a workaholic and a man of few words. He spends his time at the hospital, where he's still not out, trying to avoid the anguish and memories of the love lost in the battleground that stills hounds him. A routine that he hopelessly tries to fill up with sexual encounters, until one day a female patient forces him to brutally confront his own past.
With this quite and unpretentious movie, as a kind and nostalgic sequel, Eytan Fox makes us fall in love with an ordinary character, loving and unhappy, who regains the joy of life, the chance to see the world from a different prospective, cutting the ties with an Israeli society trapped between the past and the present. Basically, a fairy-tale with a happy ending.