BoardChiri Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Kirpianuscus a war film. and a special love story. this could be all. but important is not the story but the delicate, soft and convincing manner to tell it. this is the source of seduction of a film who remains different. sure, it is not perfect.not coherent, the desire to reproduce reality does the camera to be used like for a documentary. but the dialogues, the tension, the love scene in snow,the feelings of Ophir for Yaeli, the smell of danger, the end are arguments for admire a great work, about a delicate subject, who explores the humanity in time of war more than one of the love stories between two men. and that does "Yossi & Jagger", for the refined poetry form, a film of states of soul. and a delicate sketch about the meanings and the challenges of life.

kingsley-ervin Yossi and Jagger is really a short story of a movie: one climactic incident, no development of character, a lack of narrative dimension. But it's a very interesting picture, for two reasons beyond the usual interest in a movie about gay life in the Israeli army. The first is the amazing sense of transience about the military effort there -- you don't feel it's an army defending a homeland. Even Jagger's house seems recently set up. And there's a palpable feeling of some world more permanent and hostile beyond the range of field glasses. The military action and people are entirely credible (I've had a lot of experience of action) but the action is that of invaders. Second, the relations among the men and women are striking. Everyone pretty clearly knows or suspects about Jossi and Jagger's affair, but they're willing to leave it private, and to deal with individual feelings as personal and of value. In this sense I found the picture to give an interesting contrast with "Brokeback Mountain", whose protagonists are somewhat similar, but which presented a sense of alienation and hostility to homosexuality quite lacking in Yossi and Jagger.

skies_so_blue I really enjoyed viewing this film. Although it is in a completely different language and you have to follow it by subtitles, the morals of the film are still clear. The film is about a gay relationship between two men; Yossi and Jagger. They are in the Israeli army and sneak away on several occasions to be together. This changed my opinion on gay relationships completely. I, being a straight person, had never really understood much about gay relationships until I watched this film. The relationships which they form is beautiful and it's only when something tragic happens, Jagger is about to die, that Yossi expresses all his feelings for him. This film will really make you look at a lot of things in a different light as it explores a number of different issues; Gay relationships, unrequited feelings and grieving. I recommend this film to teenagers because there is a lot of different opinions on gay people and it really does make you look at it from a completely different angle.

davidpren I loved this film. It filled my heart with joy and was sexier than any porn film I've seen. I was utterly convinced by everything in it and have watched it again and again. For me, as a pro-Palestian activist of many years standing, I did not care where they were or what they were doing there. This film was very masculine and very gay, a combination that I find wonderful. The snoggin (as we call it in the UK) was really sexy and utterly convincing. The film was far too sort. I needed more between Jossi and Jaggar - in particular more kissing because it was wonderful. The icing on the cake would be to learn that there were any lesbian or gay people involed. The actors were fine but it helps our cause.