Sacred

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Jan 16, 2013 A moving window into lives of a particular group of people; an emotionally riveting documentary. See more Dec 27, 2012 As a person who is living in Israel, I found too many religious mistakes inside the movie. See more Oct 23, 2011 Well, how can movies about love in the Orthodox world not be sad? A good portrait of life in the Jewish Orthodox community, if one is not familiar with it, they can treat it as a semi-documentary. See more Apr 23, 2011 It is a sad movie. :( See more Dec 15, 2010 An ultimately sad film, highlighting the subjugation of women within a certain Hassidic enclave in Jerusalem. The film itself is very slow, dark, and quiet. There are scenes of immense tenderness, particularly those between a childless husband and wife, deeply in love, but forced by their community to separate so that the husband can re-marry in an attempt to produce children. But, there are also scenes of fierce brutality and blatant ignorance dictated by an incomplete understanding of the purpose, and intent, of God's Laws. This is not easy to watch, and the sense of sadness that pervades never relents, but it is still fascinating. See more Aug 22, 2010 An open window to the intimate world of an orthodox Hasidic community in Israel. As it is expected, within this patriarchal community, women are second class citizens, whose only purpose is to serve their husbands by having as many sons as possible. The story is largely shown with the eyes of women who try to resist as much as they can, religious rules picked out of the Torah. While women are not allowed to read the Torah, they suspect there must be an alternative interpretation to the limited rules prescribed for them. See more Read all reviews

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