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My Father My Lord (2008)

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Reviews Counted:4

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Consensus: This beautiful Israeli film is both a moving family drama and a potent examination of the trials of faith.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 72 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:May 16, 2008 Limited

Box Office: $24,096

Synopsis: The emotional gulf between an Orthodox rabbi and his son leads to tragedy in this religious drama. Revered Israeli actor Assi Dayan stars as the father in this modern retelling of the parable of... The emotional gulf between an Orthodox rabbi and his son leads to tragedy in this religious drama. Revered Israeli actor Assi Dayan stars as the father in this modern retelling of the parable of Abraham and Isaac. [More]

Starring: Assi Dayan, Sharon Hacohen Bar, Ilan Griff

Starring: Assi Dayan, Sharon Hacohen Bar, Ilan Griff

Director: David Volach

Director: David Volach
Producer: Eyal Shiray
Studio: Kino International

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  • A "heartbreakingly tender" (New York Times) new entry into Israel's ongoing filmmaking renaissance, My Father My Lord is "an anguished, mordant sigh of a fable" (New York Sun) set in the ultra-orthodox Israeli community in which writer-director Volach was raised. This "astonishing debut feature" (Variety) is a "beautifully made film" (Newsday) portraying childhood at its most transcendent and fundamentalism at its most intimately corrosive. "We do everything in the Torah without asking why," Rabbi Eidelman (Assi Dayan), a pious, respected elder in a cloistered Hasidic enclave tells his wonderstruck only son Menahem (Ilan Grif). But at an age where life prompts questions increasingly outside the confines of doctrine, Menahem unwittingly runs afoul of his father's inflexibility. Mindful of her marriage vows but accepting of her son's boyish curiosity, Rabbi Eidelman's wife Esther (Sharon Hacohen Bar) is caught in the middle. A holiday at the seashore meant to reconnect the family brings the ideological rift between pre-teen boy and middle-aged man to a biblically and dramatically tragic climax. "Lifting equally from the secular religiosity of Krzysztof Kieslowski's The Decalogue and the aesthetics of Jewish ritual itself" (Village Voice), and "profoundly compassionate toward its characters" (NY Times), My Father My Lord "shines with a radiance and grave grace.' (Entertainment Weekly)
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    This feminist outcry against spiritual second class citizenship, sheds enormous light on rigid religious conviction based on discipline and doctrine, in conflict with the spontaneous and unpredictable human impulses that manifest themselves in childhood.

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