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  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Menemsha Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Menemsha Films
  • 1 h 30 m
Rashevski's Tango

Summary What does it mean to be Jewish? Three generations of the Rashevski family grapple with the question, after the death of Rose, the secular matriarch who believed that the tango would make all troubles disappear. Charming and endearing, the characters confront issues of relationships, family, religion, love, romance, and interfaith marriag...

Directed By: Sam Garbarski

Written By: Philippe Blasband, Sam Garbarski

  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Menemsha Films
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • Menemsha Films
  • 1 h 30 m

Rashevski's Tango

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Summary What does it mean to be Jewish? Three generations of the Rashevski family grapple with the question, after the death of Rose, the secular matriarch who believed that the tango would make all troubles disappear. Charming and endearing, the characters confront issues of relationships, family, religion, love, romance, and interfaith marriag...

Directed By: Sam Garbarski

Written By: Philippe Blasband, Sam Garbarski

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Director Sam Garbarski’s focus occasionally skews narrow, but he does evoke the anxiety of reconciling a strict faith with secular times.
By S. James Snyder FULL REVIEW
50
In the end, though, Mr. Garbarski makes no judgments, which leaves this film feeling sweet but light: we already knew that Judaism, like most other religions, is an ever-evolving collage.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
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Picture touchingly conveys the everyday closeness of the Rashevskis, who are wont to tango their troubles away, but spiritual upheavals and tonal shifts feel artificial and strained.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
50
The Rashevski Tango begins and ends with a burial, but the movie teems with cranky life, then heals all rifts with a dance that sets a seal of comically erotic approval on that undying genre, the domestic melodrama.
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The central metaphor of dance, though, is forced, a standard-issue cliché about dancing away problems.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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Production Company AB3, Archipel 35, Ateliers de Baere, Cofimage 13, Entre Chien et Loup, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Samsa Film, WFE Production, WFE, Wallimage
Release Date Sep 4, 2009
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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Joseph Plateau Awards
• 2 Nominations

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