Barely one week after watching, for the first time, 2002 Israeli film 'Yossi and Jagger', about a secret love affair between two male soldiers, I was surprised to discover it had spawned a sequel that was showing in London! 'Yossi' is set ten years after 'Yossi and Jagger' and sees the titular character, now out of the military, spending his days as a hospital doctor and his nights trawling websites for casual sex. Closeted, he's rather sad and lonely, until an encounter with a group of young soldiers - one of whom is out, proud and (fortunately for Yossi) a bit of a chubby-chaser - leads him to re-evaluate his life. It's not an original plot, and some of the situations in the first film are reproduced here (in 'Yossi and Jagger', Jagger was the object of a young female soldier's unrequited amorous attentions; here, Yossi finds himself fending off a nurse's attempts to win him), but it's a pleasing enough, slow-burning drama, with believable performances, a good range of characters and an ambiguous ending.
