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- Summary: The story of Mendy, a young Brooklyn Hasidic Jew, and his metamorphosis as he struggles to adapt and find his place in modern secular society. (Andes Films)
- Director: Adam Vardy
- Genre(s): Drama
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63Vardy draws the moral conflicts in broad strokes, but as a portrait of a man torn between his faith and the urges of his liberated hormones, it has honest depth.
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63Film does show why so many young people raised in such communities find it so difficult to ever leave.
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60Inspired by a 1997 "Voice" article on ex-members of the Satmar sect, Mendy is cast largely with Orthodox or former Orthodox actors, who are utterly credible with dialogue that necessarily teeters between the candid and the offensive.
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