2017 · drama · romance · lgbt
Disobedience
Directed by Sebastián Lelio1h 54m2017
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Our read: Disobedience (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · romance · lgbt entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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