This is a film for another moment in time, an imaginary if not necessarily utopian moment when being Jewish is less roiled and bedeviled from within and without.
Gerald Peary
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The turf war for the bodies and souls of Montana’s Jews makes for an engaging inter-tribal drama.
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This tender documentary makes an airtight case that cinema has lost a very special person.
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I made a pledge last week to compromise my movie going, and in a silly, humiliating way.
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“Our film has community and spirituality,” says Gerald Peary. “It also has conflict.”