Religious practice, especially of the Jewish kind, is often an iffy matter on screen. As dramatized in such recent films as “A Stranger Among Us” and “A Price Above Rubies,” Orthodox Judaism is ...
(UNDATED) To some eyes, perhaps, Laura is the stereotypical image of the nice Jewish girl. She studies hard in college, holds down a work-study job on campus and picks up extra money tutoring. She ...
The Tunisian-French-Jewish family writer-director Karin Albou shows us in her first theatrical feature, “La Petite Jerusalem,” is torn between tradition and modernity and is also part of a larger ...
Tres bon film ! Je ne m'attendais a rien de particulier; ce film fait profondement reflechir sur l'influence qu'a la religion sur nos comportements personnels, sur nos relations avec les autres, sur ...
Philosophy and religion become entangled with love and sex in Karin Albou’s intelligent, sensual drama “La Petite Jerusalem.” Set in a rundown, predominately Jewish neighborhood in suburban Paris, the ...
SEXUAL repression and its consequences are the subjects of “La Petite Jerusalem,” written and directed by Karin Albou. Laura and Mathilde are working-class sisters living in a Paris suburb called La ...
"La Petite Jerusalem" is a quiet, serious film. And French, too, so expect subtitles. It's also an impressive first feature film from Karin Albou and was a Critics Week film at Cannes last year. The ...
It would be hard to imagine a filmmaking style as serious yet lazy as the earnest vérité bobbing and weaving employed by La Petite Jérusalem. Shooting in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, in a concrete ...
La Petite Jérusalem opens with a close-up on the inner thighs of its young heroine, Laura (Fanny Valette). Director Karin Albou frequently returns to Laura’s unclothed body—particularly her back—and ...
The title of this erotic 2005 drama refers to a Parisian suburb populated by a large number of North African immigrants, where an Orthodox Jewish family from Tunisia struggles with cramped quarters, ...
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