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The new wave of Israeli cinema comes out in force this time on screen french. With My father, my lord, we discover the first film by a young director who knows his subject: he was raised in a family Jewish ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem.

Menahem is a boy who in three or four years will experience a great event: his bar-mitzvah. In any case this is what keeps him repeat his father, Abraham, a chief rabbi of the community. This man brimming with faith lives only by religion and the teachings of the Torah guide lower facts and gestures of everyday life. With his wife Esther, totally devoted to his family life, it naturally raise Menahem with rigid and strict principles, in perfect accord with Jewish law. But Menahem was a child, curious about everything and not including why it has always done so many sacrifices.

This is rather austere: drawing from both Kieslowski and Bergman, My father, my lord is not really a movie light, as many say immediately. In s’immergeant almost the entire duration of the film in this universe very religious, the director does not leave the viewer any time break. There is therefore all the more strongly the pressure Abraham (a name much symbolic) poses to his family members. The film is taut as a rope, always on the verge of collapse.

The denunciation of too strong can take place that religion in some family is very well staged. It also retains the provision of the Israeli actress, Sharon Hacohen Bar, who with his face bright and in a few scenes happens to live a character moving. That said, My father, my lord is a film requiring passionnera surely anyone who is interested in the religions, but to discourage those who want to spend a moment of relaxation.