Movie Review: The flesh is willing in ‘Disobedience’
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Manhola Dargis
In “Disobedience,” the emotions are reserved, the palette muted, the rooms claustrophobic, the storytelling restrained. It’s almost a surprise that Ronit (Rachel Weisz), a successful art photographer living in New York, can breathe, given how drained of oxygen this frustrating movie is. It doesn’t seem especially airless at first, when Ronit is seen taking a portrait of a tattooed, bare-chested, much-older gent. Ronit is an uncomplicated exile from patriarchy, and demonstrably ill at ease among the Orthodox. In this, she clearly serves as a proxy for the secular viewer, who in “Disobedience” is invited to intimately witness the agony of faith but not its potentially more unfamiliar, more discomfiting ecstasy. [More]
By Manhola Dargis
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| Domestic disobedience: from left, Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams and Alessandro Nivola in Sebastián Lelio’s new film. Credit Bleecker Street |