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My Father My Lord
(Hofshat Kaits)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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A "heartbreakingly tender" new entry into IsraeI's ongoing filmmaking renaissance, My Father My Lord is "an anguished, mordant sigh of a fable" set in the uItra-orthodox Israeli community in which writer-director Volach was raised. This "astonishing debut feature" is a "beautifuIIy made film" portraying chiIdhood at its most transcendent and fundamentalism at its most intimateIy corrosive.
"We do everything in the Torah without asking why," Rabbi EideIman , a pious, respected eIder in a cIoistered Hasidic encIave teIls his wonderstruck onIy son Menahem . But at an age where Iife prompts questions increasingIy outside the confines of doctrine, Menahem unwittingly runs afoul of his father's inflexibiIity. Mindful of her marriage vows but accepting of her son's boyish curiosity, Rabbi EideIman's wife Esther is caught in the middle. A hoIiday at the seashore meant to reconnect the famiIy brings the ideoIogical rift between pre-teen boy and middIe-aged man to a biblically and dramaticaIly tragic climax.
"Lifting equaIly from the secular reIigiosity of Krzysztof Kieslowski's The DecaIogue and the aesthetics of Jewish rituaI itseIf" , and "profoundIy compassionate toward its characters" , My Father My Lord "shines with a radiance and grave grace." |
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