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The Upper West Side's bastion of middlebrow art cinema, the Lincoln Plaza Center is no palace-the screens might be suitable for art-history slide shows, but they certainly don't cut it for Russian Ark. The showtimes aren't well spaced either, which often leads to Annie Hall-style queue lines where self-styled connoisseurs hold forth on the glories of the latest Denys Arcand film. But the seats are firm and comfortable, and the eccentric snack bar has something for everyone.
Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that when pieced together, the sensuous images accumulating into a fuller picture, become a wedding dress, tulle and silk diffusing the glow. Engagements,... More »
Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that when pieced together, the sensuous images accumulating into a fuller picture, become a wedding dress, tulle and silk diffusing the glow. Engagements, weddings, births, and deaths: This film is a more traditional kind of marriage plot than you might expect in 2013, and Burshtein has cited Jane Austen as a major influence. Even within the sometimes intimate, sometimes suffocatingly close Hasidic Jewish community of Tel Aviv, where these life cycle events take place, love is not easy. And from the dense, textured carpet of her characters' emotions, Burshtein draws gorgeous threads and holds them to the light. The film centers around 18-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron), who is about to be engaged when her older sister Esther (Renana Raz) dies in childbirth. Esther leaves behind a tiny son and a grieving husband (Yochay, played by Yiftach Klein); Shira's mother (Irit Sheleg) is unwilling to lose a grandchild to Yochay's inevitable remarriage, so she devises a plan to wed Shira to Yochay. A fumbling courtship follows. Shira's painful, tightly wound interactions with Yochay make clear that she’s still a child, unable to articulate what she wants or make herself vulnerable to him, while a weary Yochay desires only to be wanted and cared for in return. The Hasidic community is never shown interacting with society at large, only moving through it out of necessity. And that insularity-- the void-- results in deep psychic pain for the people trapped within its rigid structure, even as that structure supports them. « Less
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Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that when pieced together, the sensuous images accumulating into a fuller picture, become a wedding dress, tulle and silk diffusing the glow.... More »
Jean-Luc Godard said, "All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun." But really, all you need is a girl, preferably a charismatic one with a secret in her heart. Director and actress Sarah Polley has found that girl: her own mother. Polley's... More »
Some things are charming about European films that ape Hollywood, the same way that seeing yourself reflected through a funhouse mirror can be. The sentiments aren't quite as saccharine. The obnoxious characters are a touch nastier. Some... More »
Farm films blow up human drama to mythic, big-sky terms in which the world itself is represented by a character's land, hard-earned and easily lost. Vast landscapes, both psychic and literal, are threatened by unstoppable outside forces. Kind of... More »
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