Friday, May 16th, 2008...7:10 pm
My Father My Lord
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“Although profoundly compassionate toward its characters, “My Father My Lord” is an implicit critique of ultra-Orthodox dogma by a filmmaker who grew up in a Hasidic community but abandoned it when he was 25 to study film. It compares the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac, in which a father agrees to sacrifice his son to the Lord and is given a last-minute reprieve, to the rabbi’s loss of Menachem, in which God does not save the boy. ” NYtimes
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