Divan (2003)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 1
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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 0
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A young woman who had previously forsaken the Orthodox lifestyle attempts to make amends with her father by acquiring a couch said to have been used by many famous Jewish figures in this humorous documentary from filmmaker Pearl Gluck. As a teenager, Gluck rebelled against her Orthodox upraising by moving to Manhattan to experience life on the secular side. When Gluck's father expresses a desire for his daughter to marry and return to Brooklyn, Gluck attempts to reach a compromise with her
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As it is, Divan is akin to meeting someone serendipitously on a train or cafe -- someone you like well enough -- who tells you his or her life story in all its detail and assumes you're completely enthralled.
Top CriticA touching and humorous documentary.
A charming and astute first-person documentary.
An absolutely charming first-person documentary.
A warm and engaging home movie.
Pearl Gluck has made what may be the first movie to evoke in equal measure the attraction of Hasidic Judaisim and the equally compelling reasons she abandoned it.
A sly, sweet, and consistently enlightening documentary about family, love, and religion ... and a couch.
Fascinating personal view of Hasidism.
Interesting, touching and informative.
The filmmaker is a likable protagonist/ethnographer whose self-deprecating wit and sweet-tempered chutzpah make her odyssey easy viewing. It's also surprisingly moving.
Amusing, informative documentary.
An appealing essay on how material possessions can channel our deepest longings.
This is someone's home movie, and an endearing one at that, but it isn't made well enough to justify an admission price.
Divan is an engrossing documentary about a father-daughter relationship, a search for roots, Hasidism, and a treasure from the past.
Investigation into an individual's connection to their history and their community, and the nature of what we regard as sacred and why.
Makes up in energy and high spirits what it lacks in structure and style.
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[font=Century Gothic]Pearl Gluck has a doozy of a couch story of her own to tell in this poignant and heartfelt documentary which uses that story as a starting point to explore Hasidic culture, specifically the Hasidic enclave of Boro Park in Brooklyn.(As a child, Gluck was raised in a Hasidic household but left with her mother when her parents divorced.) She receives a grant to collect Hasidic stories in Hungary. While there she looks for the above mentioned couch and makes enquiries about bringing it back to the states, all the while filming her results.[/font]
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[font=Century Gothic][/font]
[font=Century Gothic]Pearl Gluck has a doozy of a couch story of her own to tell in this poignant and heartfelt documentary which uses that story as a starting point to explore Hasidic culture, specifically the Hasidic enclave of Boro Park in Brooklyn.(As a child, Gluck was raised in a Hasidic household but left with her mother when her parents divorced.) She receives a grant to collect Hasidic stories in Hungary. While there she looks for the above mentioned couch and makes enquiries about bringing it back to the states, all the while filming her results.[/font]