My Father My Lord
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 2, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Assi Dayan | |
Performer: | Sharon Hacohen Bar & Ilan Griff | |
Directed by | David Volach | |
Written by | David Volach | |
Produced by | Eyal Shiray | |
Director of Photography: | Boaz Jonathan Yacov |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Brilliantly acted, shot with rare skill and has the force of a Biblical parable without losing its essential affection towards its characters, even Abraham. Do not miss it.
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London Evening Standard
Rating: 4/5 --
My Father My Lord may seem deceptively slight on plot but it's a superbly acted, beautifully shot and emotionally devastating drama.
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ViewLondon
Rating: 3/4 --
An impressive debut by 37-year-old Israeli writer-director David Volach, "My Father My Lord" squeezes more humanity into 72 minutes than most Hollywood movies can muster in two hours or more.
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Seattle Times
[E[very minute shines with a radiance and grave grace...-- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
This approach - together with Volach's tenderness in describing Menahem's sense of wonder - makes the film's middle scenes beguiling.
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Sunday Times (UK)
Rating: 6/10 --
Overemphasizes the parents' rigidities in detailed portrait of Ultra-Orthodox, but this family is three-dimensionally human through beautiful hand-held cinematography.
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Film-Forward.com
Rating: 4/5 --
Helped by gorgeous photography and sound design, it's a work of considerable force that bears comparison with Terence Davies's early films.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
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.
Product Description:
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)
Source - Kino on Video
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- UPC: 738329060022
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