Ushpizin

Name: Ushpizin
Genre: Drama
Released: October 19, 2005
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Michal Bat-Sheva Rand, Shuli Rand

2005

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Picturehouse Entertainment | Release Date: October 19, 2005 | PG

Starring: Michal Bat-Sheva Rand, Shuli Rand

Summary: Director Gidi Dar's film, Ushpizin (roughly translated as "holy guests"), is a revelatory and humorous look at the daily lives of ultra-orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel. (Picturehouse)

Director: Giddi Dar

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG

Runtime: 90 min

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Steven Rea

Does what the best movies can do: take viewers to what might be unfamiliar places, into a culture with unique customs and traditions, and show, through drama and comedy, how the fundamental truths of the human experience need no translation. Read full review

Marc Mohan

In addition to providing a fascinating, agenda-free look at an unseen way of life, the film presents a lesson that should be welcome among people of any faith or none at all. Read full review

Ken Fox

There's little difference between this joyful holiday film and the standard-issue yuletide-miracle movie, except that the holiday isn't Christmas. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

A charming comedy with a philosophical undercurrent that provides a fascinating glimpse of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Jews, who live in a realm almost literally sealed off from outsiders. But the most remarkable thing about the film is that it exists at all. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Stylistically Ushpizin belongs to a classic tradition of raucous Yiddish comedy that is easy to enjoy if taken lightly. At the same time, it sustains a double vision of ultra-Orthodox life. Read full review

Ella Taylor

A warm, conciliatory entertainment. Read full review

David Hughes

A flawed but fascinating (and frequently funny) insight into a culture seldom explored on film from an insider's point of view. Read full review

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NeilP.

Oct 24, 2005

Normally I don't like foreign movies with subtitles, but I loved this one. It is a charming comedy-drama that the whole family can enjoy together. "Fiddler on the Roof" meets "Miracle on 34th Street".