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The Other Story

2018

Joy Rieger, Maya Dagan, Sasson Gabai, Yuval Segal ...

Drama Two rebellious young women, one fleeing the chaos of secular hedonism for the disciplined comforts of faith, the other desperate to transcend her oppressive religious upbringing for sexual and spiritual freedom, cross paths unexpectedly in Jerusalem.

	Author	Review
United States	Alissa Simon Variety	"[It] intelligently examines the divide between Israel’s secular Jews and the ultra-Orthodox (...) Smartly cast and smoothly directed"	POS
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Diluting its powerful themes with overcooked melodrama and unnecessarily distracting subplots, 'The Other Story' would have benefited from a simpler, more direct approach."	NEG
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"[It offers] engaging, thought-provoking reflections on modern life with broad commercial appeal (...) Nesher and co-writer Noam Shpancer effectively build the layers of the story and tighten the tensions"	POS
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"Through this endless string of undercooked subplots, Nesher’s film continually trips over itself (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"Unwieldy but reasonably compelling (...) The surfeit of subplots muddles the message."	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"The film has no lack of traits that compel our attention (...) [It] also offers convincing acting"	POS

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