Rotten
It's too acerbic to be funny and too detached to be really moving.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Overview
Life in a Tel Aviv apartment complex, an urban mosaic whose seedy characters, try as they might, can't get out of one another's faces. Gabi, a bobbed haired sexpot, and her lover Hezi—who's older, balding and married—rent a room to have an affair, while Ezra, a pot bellied divorcee, supervises an illegal construction site next door. All this racket drives Schwartz, a Holocaust survivor, to a mental breakdown. Other characters include illegal Chinese immigrants, a teenage boy who's afraid to serve in the army, and a corrupt police detective.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
41%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's a bit of a mess.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
The story and even the characters turn out to be less interesting than the overview it gives us of the way Israelis live now, its portrait of a dislocated society where despair rumbles beneath the surface of everyday life.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Though absorbing enough, Alila must be counted a noble failure, if only because its efforts to follow the screwed-up lives of 12 hapless souls in a seedy Tel Aviv apartment building finally add up more to mere mimicry than commentary.
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
None of the characters or situations truly manages to hold our attention, though there are some arresting moments.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
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