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Divan
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Unrated :: Zeitgeist Films ::
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2005-09-20
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Rating:
4.0/5 (4 Reviews)
2/5
Sort of Boring
by Aaron Huber (Coral Springs, FL)
I think that if you're not from the Chassidic world, you might find this film interesting. However, if you are orthodox or know anything about Chassidim, there are no major revelations here. I didn't really find any of the interviewee's stories about breaking out of the Chassidic world very compelling. Basically all of their stories are the same, and even though they have managed to break out they still seem sad about it. This documentary should have either been about the couch or Chassidic drop outs, but I don't think that the two mixed very well.
5/5
Great Movie
by I. Fidanovic (Metuchen, NJ USA)
It is very interesting to get an insight in to the lives of Hasidic Jewish Community in America and Europe.
4/5
Begins as a cultural study, ends as a movie about families.
by atisheh (New York, New York)
There was something oddly artificial at the beginning of Divan, something that made me think I wouldn't like it much. I think this was the movie's warmup -- five minutes for it to stretch out, and for me to get used to Gluck's voice. I didn't realise in those first five minutes how much I would enjoy the movie.
The thing about this movie is that it begins more as a cultural study of Hassidic Jews (focussing on Brooklyn), as they're represented through the voices of the people who have left the community. There was something a little unsettling about this section of the movie; one the one hand, we know that the narrator comes from the community, and has earned the right, as it were, to criticise it. On the other hand, since we hear only the voices of the Hassidim who have left, only get a sense of their personalities, the actual Hassidic community seems distant, almost caricatured.
What makes this portrait, and the movie, richer, is what Gluck did not originally intend to happen: it becomes a personal story about her life, her search for identity, and most movingly, her attempt to reconnect with her father. What we realise in the end is that as much as she sees her father's community critically, as much as she is happy with having moved away from its norms, she still needs his approval. This is where the movie shifts from being a cultural study of a specific group to a story that almost any human being can associate with: that is the story of a child who wants his parent to be proud of him.
It is perhaps telling that I cried in two spots: first, halfway through the movie, as Gluck and a Jewish tour guide in Hungary (or was it Ukraine) look at a Holocaust memorial. This was a tragedy I empathised with deeply, but it was not *my* tragedy. The second moment came at the end, when Gluck's father visits her apartment for the first time in eight years. The need for a father's approval was, ultimately, my story.
4/5
The Hasadic Jewish communiy, through the eyes of one of their own
by Linda Linguvic (New York City)
This 2003 documentary was made by Pearl Gluck, a young woman who was formerly a member of the Hasidic Jewish community in New York. She still has her roots in there though. And that's why she chose to do this film, in which she explores both the positive and negative aspects of the community. She does this by interviews with other people who have similarly moved away from the faith. But, most of all, she does it by exploring a particular part of her family history in a search for a divan (or couch) which was in her family's home in Hungary in the late 19th century.
This was a special divan because visiting Hasidic rabbis used to sleep on it. She was determined to travel to Hungary, purchase the divan, and bring it back to America.
Ms. Gluck takes the audience along with her on her journey which has the feel of an intimate home movie. Her quest seemed strange to me but I found myself intrigued and just couldn't stop watching the film. The town in Hungary where she goes has been devastated by the Holocaust. There are barely any Jews left. However, she does find a family who owns the divan, but they refuse to sell it to her. She then continues her quest for a similar divan and brings it back to America.
That's the whole story but the film was good because it gave me an insight into the closeness as well as the restrictions of that very special community. It was also entertaining, especially when everybody she met tried to get her to meet a marriageable young man.
Clearly, this is not a film for everyone. But I think I learned something from it that was a little more personal than something I would see on the history channel.
Divan Summary
Studio: Zeitgeist Films Release Date: 09/20/2005 Run time: 77 minutes
Divan DVD Techincal Details
Cast:
Pearl Gluck
,
Basya Schechter
,
Giti Koenig
,
Isaac Stein
Director:
Pearl Gluck
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Rated:
Unrated
Running Time:
90 mins
UPC:
795975107136
Binding:
DVD
Studio:
Zeitgeist Films
Release Date:
2005-09-20
Region Code:
1
Specs:
Color, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Language & Subtitles
English (Original Language), Hungarian (Original Language), Yiddish (Original Language), English (Subtitled),
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