This Cannes Director’s Fortnight favorite by sibling directors Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz is quietly building its case as the most nuanced and brilliant film offering out of Israel in years. GETT- which flaunts the conventions of narrative time and takes place almost entirely within the harrowing confines of a Rabbinical divorce court- follows the incomprehensible emotional travails of a woman who is forced to beg, plead, and cajole her husband (and the triumvirate of Rabbis) to grant her a divorce and “permit” her to be free to love other men. The film boasts an astonishing turn by veteran stage actress Ronit Elkabetz and has drawn both praise- and condemnation- for its expose of the non-secular judicial procedures in Israel that subjects women to the mercy of Rabbis (and not judges) to grant a Jewish-law divorce.
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