Film review and podcast by c d kaplan
There are cultures around the world so intent on preserving the ways of the ancients that stifling mandates about life have been mandated.
Put together marriages that have nothing to do with love.
Separation of the genders in some of them.
Dictates about daily living that are rigid.
Deborah Feldman’s memoir, how she had to move on from the strictures of a Hasidic community in Brooklyn, has now been cinematized.
Dramatic liberties with the actual story have been taken. But this four episode Netflix series is intriguing nonetheless.
For more details, and insight, listen to the podcast above.
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