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Sacred (1999)
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Original name: קדוש
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem's Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva's rabbi, who is Meir's father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: "a barren woman is no woman." Rivka's sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular. The rabbi arranges Malka's marriage to Yossef, whose agitation when fulfilling religious duties approaches the grotesque. Can the sisters sort out their hearts' desires within this patriarchal world? If not, have they any other options?
Style:
philosophical, thinking, sincere, clever, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, controversial, gloomy
Plot:
marital abuse, orthodox jew, religion, judaism, israeli, arranged marriage, women, feminism, arab, couples, family relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, family problems, strong female presence, rabbi, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, dishonesty, religions or cults, ghetto, loneliness, suicide, adultery ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 1990s
Place:
israel, middle east, persia, palestine, jerusalem
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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