Ended on 3/18/2010
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EYES WIDE OPEN -
(unrated)
2009 - Israel - Hebrew/Yiddish (with English subtitles) - 90 minutes - New American Vision
Directed by: Haim Tabakman
Featuring: Zohar Shtrauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell
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 Aaron, a respectable butcher in Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, is married to Rivka and is a dedicated father of four children. One day, he hires Ezri, a handsome twenty-two year old student, as an apprentice and soon develops feelings for him. As the relationship grows, Aaron starts to neglect his family and community life, swept away by his love--and lust--for Ezri. But a foreboding guilt, inner torment and intense condemnation from the community catch up with him, leading him to make a radical decision.
"EYES WIDE OPEN deserves not just political points, but artistic ones as well: overused adjectives like "patient" and "understated" are perfectly justified here...definitely a cut above."
-Village Voice
"Recalling Amos Gitai's "Kadosh" and David Volach's "My Father My Lord" (which Tabakman edited), the soberly fascinating pic shows the attractions and disadvantages of life in a closed religious community. The taboo-breaking EYES WIDE OPEN is an intense, restrained drama."
-Variety
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by : s.d. rosenbaum |
Date Added: 2/17/2010 8:04:54 PM  report this post |
Very moving. shows wonderful community and spiritual life (for the men). Also shows pain of people who are forced to conform if they don't fit in. Very painful.
Many people who review this movie or other about observant Jewish LGBT do not understand (as the reviewers are not observant themselves and haven't experianced how wonderful and rich othodox community and spirituality can be) miss the point that people are in the community because they want to be. They love Orthodox Judiasm even to the point of putting up with the sexism and homophobia. Sexism and homophobia are not religion. It's patriarchy. Please HaShem, some day may women and lgbt be welcomed fully into our communities. Please help us stop sexism and lgbt phobia from poisoning our communities.
PS: they makers of the movie, not orthodox themselves obviously focused only on researching only the men's obligations. The butchers wife had long red hair which she was seen brushing while sitting on her bed in anticipation of being with her husband. Hasidic married women shave their hair off.
In one review a person was quoted as referring to the younger man as "ittinerent". I wish he'd understand that the man was ittinirent because he was scorned because of his homosexuality and was forced to become so. And again, he said the man should go to tel aviv etc. outside of the Hasidic communities and not pick on married men. Again, he doesn't want to be in a secular community. He wants to be in his religious community. Both he and his lover should belong there free of harassment. Of course, just like in secular communities gl people get married out of pressure and fear. Then there is a mess.
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by : Mike |
Date Added: 2/23/2010 12:38:53 PMreport this post |
An amazing movie.Hope The tickets prices are much cheaper though,I found them quite expensive.The film is worth watching 5 times,it`s based on mutual love not on explicit form of love.
A million thanks to you & to your awesome site.
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by : Dmitri |
Date Added: 8/2/2010 7:38:12 PMreport this post |
very sad story of life...
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