My Father My Lord (2006)

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This powerful and heartbreaking film takes a look at the price that may be exacted by a rigid observation of religious tenets. Its central character, a respected rabbi in an ultra-Orthodox community -- who is also a father and husband -- is forced to come to terms with the demands of his faith and the welfare of his own family. ~www.tribecafilmfestival.org

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My Father My Lord
by Basya in Basya Blog

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"Truly an extraordinary film that I suspect will haunt me for many years to come. While it takes place within the confines of a deeply religious Orthodox family in Jerusalem with all the sensitive and accurate attention to the details of that observant way of life, nevertheless, its themes extend far beyond that cloistered and private world. The theme of a parent's passionate and devotional (albeit obsessive) pursuit of what is most meaningful and important to him exacting a terrible price on him and his family is as applicable to the secular father (or mother) whose all consuming career repeatedly takes presidence over giving full attention to his/her child as it is to this religious rabbi depicted in the film. The reality is that anyone of us can be momentarily preoccupied with "other things" and lose our child in that awful moment. Only in looking back do we see the terrible damage we have done in being totally oblivious and out of sink with our child's rea ... " [More]

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