MENASHE
THURS • SEPT 14
7:00 PM
Here’s what they’re saying about
MENASHE
“The subtle on-screen chemistry between father and son gives this sweet and poignant drama a solid emotional base.”
Bruce Demara,
Toronto Star
“Delicately woven and sensitively told, director-writer Joshua Z Weinstein’s ode to a shlemiel rings true.”
Brad Wheeler,
Globe and Mail
“In scene after scene, Menashe strikes complex notes without telegraphing how the audience should feel.”
Alan Zilberman,
Washington Post
MENASHE
Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife, Lea, passes away. Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires a mother present in every home, Rieven is supposed to be adopted by the boy’s strict, married uncle, but Menashe’s Rabbi decides to grant him one week to spend with Rieven prior to Lea’s memorial.
Their time together creates an emotional moment of father/son bonding as well as offers Menashe a final chance to prove to his skeptical community that he can be a capable parent.
(2017, 82 min. Director: Joshua Z Weinstein, in Yiddish with subtitles, Not Rated)