Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish

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2010

1h 32m

Comedy

Drama

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The children of two rival sects of ultra-Orthodox Jews, the Chabads and the Satmars, fall in love.

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Leba Hertz

San Francisco Chronicle

A charming and entertaining movie that instills a little fantasy into the mix.

Rated: 3/4

May 31, 2012

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Sheri Linden

Los Angeles Times

The performances are uneven, but there's a grimy thrill to seeing scenes from the play in subway cars and on fire escapes.

Rated: 3.5/5

May 10, 2012

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Joseph Jon Lanthier

Slant Magazine

Nearly all of the characters seem curiously representative of some seldom-seen sub-cultural trend, if they're ultimately somewhat interchangeable.

Rated: 2/4

Jul 8, 2011

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Stuart Klawans

The Nation

It's wonderful what they've done with a few gauze curtains, some candles, a bunch of funny subtitles and a lot of inventiveness.

Jul 12, 2011

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Nora Lee Mandel

Film-Forward.com

[B]lows away Shakespearean fairy dust on fusty nostalgic notions of classic Yiddish theater, with exuberance of lo-fi Luhrmann in a West Side Story set in exotic Brooklyn.

Rated: 8/10

Jul 10, 2011

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Louis Proyect

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The writer-director has bitten off a bit more than she can chew but this is a must-see for anybody who loves the sound of Yiddish, as well as those interested in Jewish culture in general. The young actors, renegades from the Satmar, are superb.

Jul 9, 2011

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Eve Annenberg

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Melissa Weisz

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Mendy Zafir

Mendy

Bubbles Yoeli Weiss

Josef Yossi Friedman

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Synopsis

The children of two rival sects of ultra-Orthodox Jews, the Chabads and the Satmars, fall in love.

Director: Eve Annenberg
Producer: Eve Annenberg, Lazer Weiss, Mendy Zafir
Screenwriter: Eve Annenberg
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 27, 2013
Runtime: 1h 32m

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