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Movie Reviews of A Price Above Rubies
Movie Review: It could have been better
Summary: 3 Stars
I found this movie hard to follow. Renée Zellweger is playing a wife of an Orthodox scholar (Hasidic Judaism). He is very strong in his beliefs and she has no use for God. She is very much into the material world and what it has to offer. She gets a chance in the jewelry business through her brother-in-law but it has a high price. While working for him, she meets a Puerto Rican jewelry designer and artist whose work gives her joy but she also encounters grief by meeting him. The story is pretty much about a woman struggling to be herself in a rigid community. But you can also see how for some people it's very comforting to have strong rules and codes.
The movie is written and edited in such a way I found it hard to follow. Especially in the beginning. It's too bad because this could have been great movie. Instead I found myself frustrated watching it.
Movie Review: Missed opportunity
Summary: 2 Stars
I was excited about renting this movie, because the world of Hasidic Jews is not often explored in the cinema. I expected something multidimensional and eye-opening. The movie started off well. It had some interesting twists, like Sonia's conversations with her dead brother. But the characters turned out to be talking heads. They have no depth. They are humanized stereotypes. Sonia's husband is portrayed as stiff-necked, sexually repressed Jewish schoolmaster. The rest of the characters are "extras". They have one collective soul, one collective attitude, which is probably the effect that the director was going for. I can tell that the director has a huge chip on his shoulder. It's obvious that he hates anything remotely traditional. Apparently, only secular Jews deserve sympathy. Orthodox Jews are portrayed as arrogant and secluded. What can be more "liberating" for poor little Sonia than an affair with a hip urban hispanic artist? What a shame. This could have been a serious movie.Movie Review: Totally unrealistic view of orthodox Judaism
Summary: 1 Stars
Boaz Yakin's movie is the story of a woman caught in an unhappy marriage. This is an extremely wrong and depressing portrayal of orthodox Judiasm. I can point out so many instances. It starts right from the marriage, the orthodox Jewish weddings are wonderful occasions, this looks like a funeral. There are so many wrong interpretations of the bible that anyone would be offended. The worst is the Rabbi who disregards his wife, though he is such a great scholar. Some call him "Moshe Rabbenu". I will not go into details but no sincere Jew is allowed to disregard his wife, there is a mitzwah against it. The part where he dies and his wife comes and and thanks Renee is the silliest of all. The way the entire community is portrayed makes me think that I am looking at some other community, though I partly belong to it. Every community has its positives and negatives, but showing the negatives alone is wrong. This is a unique community that has great positives, attachment to family, scholarly spirit, artistic tendencies and so on that have been shown over generations. Some of the great american writers such as Saul Bellow came from such families. While the characters are acted well, it is totally silly and fictional. Do not waste time on this garbage.Movie Review: terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
I thought it was boring.I didnt like the concept of it was too jewish. I didnt like they made jews too strict. I didnt like the way they made the customs. I didnt like renee zellweger got asked too many personal questions. For example they questioned her about the jewish ritual bath. I could understand it because i am an orthdox jew. because i have gone to yeshiva. Most non jewish pepole cant understand the movie. As well as non orthdox jews.Boaz yakin had no right makin the movie like this. he should make a sequel to learn from his mistakes to make it a public movie. I wish i were in show business to make the movie more normal.Movie Review: Ugly
Summary: 1 Stars
A perfect example of the nasty, bigoted view that secularists have of Chassidim. People always think that members of traditional cultures would leave if they only knew what was "out there." They are wrong. Chassidim know what is "out there" and that is why they are Chassidim.
An inaccurate piece of garbage made by arrogant and ethnocentric Hollywood.