Seder-Masochism

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S R Saw this after watching Sita and it was a big let down. The narrative was odd, inferred and solely musical besides a man narrating as God? I should've avoided it after the title, but decided to persevere despite it. It was on youtube. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Todo es grandioso en esta película de Nina Paley, la forma en que narra la historia del judaísmo, la música, la animación y el relevante papel de la mujer, esplendoroso. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Nina Paley strikes back, and this time is personal. Jewish-personal, in her second and newest addition to her indie, borderline-handcrafted, animated canon. A 10-year in the making response to the main backlashes against Hindu-centered 2008's "Sita Sings the Blues", this time departing from emotional fragility to dive deep into questioning her own Jewish upbringing, patriarchy, and the extinct worship to womanhood. Paley's "Seder-Masochism" offers both intimate perspectives and imprudent comedy displayed through, again, multi-layered storytelling that ranges from visually reinterpreted recordings between the author and the late Hiram Paley (Nina's father himself) to a Moses tap-dancing uphill on a supiciously "straight" Mt. Sinai over the beats of Singing in the Rain. And, even though the film's solemn intention is both to tribute and ridicule traditions she implies were forced upon her during childhood, the result is still a joyful manifesto inviting to find new lights in the Book of Exodus with now varied animated musical numbers including from The Pointer Sisters to Led effing Zeppelin. Sprinkled by instructing sections about the notorious Jewish holiday of Passover through both a Last Supper vocalized by a ceremony recording and the impressive experimental weaven animation of "Chad Gadyo". And finally crowned with maturer concepts of figures flexing and flowing through the screen, intoducing and interluding Paley's vision along the ever mesmerizing talents of the Bulgarian State Television Female Choir ("Ghost in the Shell", "Brother Bear"). A recommended watch despite its more episodic and contrived formula when compared to the author's first feature, for - if this is the kind of blasphemous depth for your cup of tea - then "Seder-Masochism" will refill it four times with Passover wine for your dark and trippy sense of humour. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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