THEn Onda tonight on the first TV at 9.10 pm on Rai Movie, Disobedience It is a film directed by Sebastián Lelio which tells the forbidden love between two Jewish-Orthodox women in contemporary London. Protagonists Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdamsis an exciting melodrama but also one criticism of religious fundamentalism and a society still slave to conventions.
The melodrama Disobedience, The plot of the film on the first TV on Rai Movie
Romit (Rachel Weisz) is a successful English photographer who lives in New York. One day He receives a phone call from London: his father died. After a long hesitation, he takes the plane for participate in funeral. And he returns to the Jewish-Orthodox community in which he grew up, where his father was the chief rabbi and that she had suddenly left time before.
In the English capital, Ronit finds Esti (Rachel McAdams), childhood friend with which, at the time of high school, he had had a short love story. Esti today is married to Dovid (Alessandro Nivola)Cousin of Ronit and destined to become the new rabbi of the community. With the passing of the days, Romit realizes that the ancient passion for Esti it is still alive. Because of this forbidden love, to avoid the reproduction of all, he had abandoned the community, but it was not enough: LAnd two women become so lovers. Until, to further complicate things, Esti does not discovers that she is pregnant with her husband.
Taken from a true story, the forbidden love between two Orthodox Jewish lesbians
Taken from the Naomi Aldman’s best seller of the same namebased on some of his personal events and published in Italy by Nighttime, Disobedience And A passionate film about femininity and prejudice directed by Oscar -winning director Sebastián Lelio. Set in an unpublished and little by postcard London, this forbidden love story It does not only tell the passion of the two protagonists but also addresses important issues such as the severity of the social environment, the rigidity of religious dictates and acceptance of custom and facade ties.
“I immediately fell in love with the three protagonist characters,” said the director At the time of the release of the film in a press release “This is a love story between all three. Disobedience And A very intense journey in which the characters cross tumultuous situations. The context of the world of the community of Orthodox Jews is certainly important, but The theme of the story is decidedly universal».
Lelio’s stylistic figure is well marked: slow narration, sober directionminimalist soundtrack e A palette of colors tending to gray that amplifies the solitude and life without joy of the characters of the film. These precise choices allow the Chilean director to explode the passion between his protagonists and of remark, even more, a hard criticism of an intolerant society and slave of conventions. Disobedience is like that a poignant but also tragically current mélo.
Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams in a “disobedience” scene. (Bleecker Street Media)
To lead the cast the very good Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams
Born in London in 1978, Rachel Weisz debuts at the cinema in 1995 with Chain reaction To then land in Tuscany on the set of the film I dance alone by Bernardo Bertolucci. Subsequently It is in the cast of the blockbuster The mummy and in About a Boy – A guy next to Hugh Grant.
In 2005 Rachel got A leading role in the film The Constant Gardener – conspiracy alongside Ralph Fiennes. Thriller adaptation The Tenace gardener by John Le Carré, the film is worth a Oscar winner for the best support actress. Former partner of the director Darren Aronofsky, from whom he had his son Henry, In 2011 he married the actor Daniel Craig.
Canadian actress born in 1978, Rachel McAdams debuts in the cinema in 2002 thanks to Paolo Virzì that writing for the film My Name is Tanino In which he plays Sally, the American girl who makes the protagonist lose his head. Popularity comes two years later with Mean Girlsalongside Lindsay Lohan.
On the set of The pages of our lifetaken from the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks, In fact, he gets engaged to Ryan Gosling: The relationship lasts until 2007. Over the years, Rachel works with directors of the caliber of Woody AllenTerrence Malick and Sam Raimi. In 2024 he made his debut A Broadway with the show Mary Jane that is worth one candidacy for Tony Awards for best leading actress.
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