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Movie Info

Anat is a rebellious young woman who wants to flee the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith. Sari is a young woman who wants to leave behind her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom. When Anat and Sari cross paths in Jerusalem, it soon changes both of their lives in startling and unexpected ways.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

Hebrew
Director:

Avi Nesher
Producer:

David M. Milch, Avi Nesher, David Silber, Moshe Edery
Writer:

Avi Nesher, Noam Shpancer
Release Date (Theaters):

Jun 28, 2019 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 24, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA):

$135.0K
Runtime:

1h 52m
Production Co:

Metro Communications, MiLa Media
Aspect Ratio:

Scope (2.35:1)

Cast & Crew

Maayan Bloom

Maya Dagan
Tali Abadi

Sasson Gabai
Shlomo Abadi

Nathan Goshen
Shachar

Orna Pitussi
Pagan High Priestess

Adam Emanuel Propp
Rabbi

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Critic Reviews for The Other Story

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (4)

In lesser hands "The Other Story" might have felt overloaded and uneven. But Nesher moves through the material with a clear and quiet confidence, aided by a uniformly excellent cast.

August 21, 2019 | Full Review…

G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
Nesher skillfully balances a lot of characters and storylines, each illustrating a different kind of Israeli and a different connection to Jewish life, culture, and practice, but he never lets any of them become symbolic rather than real.

June 28, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Nell Minow
RogerEbert.com
More popular melodrama than the usual exercise in high art, it whipsaws us with so many unexpected passions and surprising events that holding on to your seat is strongly recommended.

June 27, 2019 | Full Review…

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
Unwieldy but reasonably compelling...

June 27, 2019 | Full Review…

Ben Kenigsberg
New York Times
Diluting its powerful themes with overcooked melodrama and unnecessarily distracting subplots, The Other Story would have benefited from a simpler, more direct approach.

June 26, 2019 | Full Review…

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
A smartly cast and smoothly directed drama...

June 24, 2019 | Full Review…

Alissa Simon
Variety
Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher's The Other Story is a multilayered, soap-opera-style drama that explores just how interesting Israel's "Wild East" neighborhood can be.

May 27, 2020 | Full Review…

David Lamble
Bay Area Reporter
The Other Story has a great core idea that's executed with such brazen and over the top emotional manipulation that one almost wants to press assault charges against it.

July 24, 2019 | Rating: 4.5/10 | Full Review…

Andrew Parker
The Gate
Yet another rigorous story of a woman's rebellion against her father and her entire religious upbringing.

June 23, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Harvey S. Karten
Shockya.com
The Other Story is grounded through a father-daughter relationship but also touches on the struggles between Ultra-Orthodox Judaism and secular lifestyles.

October 16, 2018 | Full Review…

Danielle Solzman
Solzy at the Movies
A gripping, touching and unpredictable story about a troubled father-daughter relationship that weaves in the conflicts between secular and ultra-Orthodox Israelis, a struggle that is so central to Israeli life but rarely the focus of fiction.

September 23, 2018 | Full Review…

Hannah Brown
Jerusalem Post
From director Avi Nesher comes this wildly unfocused drama...

September 12, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

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