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'My Father My Lord'
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If you're going to take on fundamentalist religion, it's less wise to use a meat ax than a rapier. Which is exactly how writer-director David Volach engages ultra Orthodox Jews of his "My Father My Lord," a highly provocative, unmistakably critical drama set among Israel's Haredim (the director is himself the product of a Haredic community in Jerusalem).
Seducing the viewer via a portrait...
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