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EAN: 9321337067520 Format: PAL Label: Palace Films Languages: Manufacturer: Palace Films Publisher: Palace Films Release Date: September 27, 2006 Running Time: 94 minutes Studio: Palace Films Average Rating:
 Rating: - Freedom vs. law . . .Director Karin Albou says she was only secondarily interested in her characters as Orthodox Jews, living in Paris. She was more concerned with the meaning of freedom - especially freedom for women in a highly regulated and constricted culture - and the rule of law. On the one hand we have the Talmudic law, which constrains one of the two sisters at the center of the film, who is married with four young children. Her husband, she learns has been unfaithful to her, we're given to understand, because ... Read More Rating: - A haunting portrait of Jewish sistersWriter/director Karin Albou's LA PETITE JERUSALEM (2005, Israeli) is a lovely and priviledged glimpse into the world of Hasidic Jews living in a Paris suburb called "Little Jerusalem". Specifically, the movie is about two likeable and very different sisters. The younger, Laura (Fanny Vanettte), is orthodox, quiet, and into philosophy; she believes Kant's teachings matter more than the Talmud. Her older sister, Mathilde Elsa Zyberstein), is married with four children. She is much more free ... Read More Rating: - "A Fantasy Of Fusion" ~ Concerning Thought, Belief, God And The Continuity Of TraditionNote: French and Hebrew with English subtitles. `La Petite Jerusalem' released in '05 is an intelligent, thoughtful and articulate exploration of the question "What is reason capable of." In the context of this film it appears to be capable of luring Laura (Fanny Valette), an educated free thinking philosophy student out of the protective confines of her Orthodox Jewish community and blantantly defying its traditions to pursue a romantic relationship with a Moslem co-worker. While most of ... Read More |
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