A simple story, gently told, in a stark setting of almost medieval religiosity.
I'm middle-aged gay European agnostic from Christian background and found this film enchanting and entertaining although sombre and downbeat.
The 'purity police' were scary talibanesque types: you will comply or else. I did not know about such compliance methods in Judaism.
The intolerance towards the 'seducer' gay man was ugly, so far removed from secular/reform attitudes around me.
The main character (the butcher Aaron) was unfulfilled after siring four children and still having a loving and beautiful wife, felt 'dead inside'.
But was that from the recent loss of his father, or some other reasons than just lust?
I'm middle-aged gay European agnostic from Christian background and found this film enchanting and entertaining although sombre and downbeat.
The 'purity police' were scary talibanesque types: you will comply or else. I did not know about such compliance methods in Judaism.
The intolerance towards the 'seducer' gay man was ugly, so far removed from secular/reform attitudes around me.
The main character (the butcher Aaron) was unfulfilled after siring four children and still having a loving and beautiful wife, felt 'dead inside'.
But was that from the recent loss of his father, or some other reasons than just lust?