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Presents DISOBEDIENCE A film by Sebastián Lelio 114 mins, UK, 2017 Language: English, Hebrew and Yiddish Distribution Publicity Bonne Smith Star PR 1352 Dundas St. West Tel: 416-488-4436 Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6J 1Y2 Twitter: @starpr2 Tel: 416-516-9775 Fax: 416-516-0651 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.mongrelmedia.com @MongrelMedia MongrelMedia DIRECTED BY Sebastián Lelio STARRING Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola PRODUCED BY Frida Torresblanco, Ed Guiney and Rachel Weisz EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY Rose Garnett, Daniel Battsek, Ben Browning, Glen Basner, Andrew Lowe, Eric Laufer, Giovanna Randall, SCREENPLAY BY Sebastián Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz BASED ON THE NOVEL BY Naomi Alderman DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Danny Cohen BSC LINE PRODUCER Rachel Dargavel EDITOR Nathan Nugent MUSIC BY Matthew Herbert PRODUCTION DESIGNER Sarah Finlay COSTUME DESIGNER Odile Dicks-Mireaux CASTING DIRECTOR Nina Gold HAIR & MAKE UP DESIGNER Marese Langan 2 SHORT SYNOPSIS A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community after the death of her rabbi father and stirs up controversy when she shows an interest in an old childhood friend. LONG SYNOPSIS In a Jewish Orthodox Synagogue in Hendon, the frail RAV KRUSHKA (Anton Lesser) collapses whilst giving a sermon. As funeral rites commence in London, the Rabbi’s exiled daughter RONIT KHRUSKA (Rachel Weisz) is living her life as a photographer in Manhattan. During a photo shoot she is told by the Brooklyn Synagogue of her father’s death; wounded by the news and in a vulnerable state, she gets drunk in a local bar and sleeps with an undetermined man. -
DISOBEDIENCE by Campbell Dalglish, [email protected]
DISOBEDIENCE by Campbell Dalglish, [email protected] When freedom to love whomever we choose means breaking the mold of family social structures and the religions that have supported them, a spiritual cold war emerges like a flower in the middle of a sidewalk in North London, as though it's always been there, and will never go away, as hard as we might pray. So what can one do about that flower? The film, "Disobedience," by Chilean director, Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman 2017 and Gloria 2013) addresses this question raised by the intimate love affair between two Jewish women. Based on the novel of the same name by Naomi Alderman (2006) who also wrote the popular dystopian novel “The Power" (2017) about women taking over the world, this love story challenges an entire Jewish faith based community. "Disobedience" opens with a sermon by Rabbi Rav Krushka, played by Anton Lesser (Game Of Thrones) defining a Hebrew's view of British existence in three parts: Angels, Monsters and of course us - humans - caught in between. His sermon ends with him keeling over dead before his North London congregation. Cut to his daughter, photographer Ronit Krushka played by Rachel Weisz (Constant Gardener 2005 and Lobster 2015) making her artistic study in New York of a similar looking old man stripped to his waste covered in tattoos when she is interrupted by the news of her father's death. Right away we are lead to see that this woman is living a rather odd existential life in New York City. In response to the news of her father's death, she has sex with a strange man in a bathroom. -
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Nick Davis Film Discussion Group May 2018 Disobedience (dir. Sebastián Lelio, 2017) Cast Ronit (photographer): Rachel Weisz: One year ago, we watched her in My Cousin Rachel (17) Esti (her former lover): Rachel McAdams: nominated for Spotlight (15); fun in Game Night (18) Dovid (Esti’s husband): Alessandro Nivola: a star of one of my all-time favorites, Junebug (05) Rav Krushka (the rabbi): Anton Lesser: Prime Minister Harold MacMillan in The Crown (16–) Moshe Hartog (uncle): Allan Corduner: Sullivan to Broadbent’s Gilbert in Topsy-Turvy (99) Off Camera Director/Cowriter: Sebastián Lelio: Oscar-winning Chilean director in his English-language debut Co-Screenwriter: Rebecca Lenkiewicz: English playwright who co-wrote Oscar winner Ida (13) Author of Source: Naomi Alderman: English novelist adapting her own debut novel into a script Cinematography: Danny Cohen: The King’s Speech (10); Room (15); Victoria & Abdul (17) Original Score: Matthew Herbert: English electronic musician, with occasional forays into film Film Editing: Nathan Nugent: Another veteran of Room (15); also Glassland (14), some TV Prod. Design: Sarah Finlay: the excellent Weekend (11) and 45 Years (15), by Andrew Haigh Costume Design: Odile Dicks-Mireaux: close with Weisz; also Brooklyn (15), An Education (09) Also directed by Sebastián Lelio… The Sacred Family (2005) – Debut feature about a Chilean man and his parents vacationing at their beach house, thrown into chaos by the son’s rebellious girlfriend; now free on Amazon Prime Christmas (2009) – Another intense love-triangle, -
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NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2018 NOVEMBER - DECEMBER RACHEL WEISZ + RACHEL MCADAMS IN DISOBEDIENCE ISSUE 71 HHHHH FINANCIAL TIMES “A PERFECTLY CUT DIAMOND OF A MOVIE” VARIETY IN CINEMAS JANUARY 1 CONTENTS STORIES LIVE FOREVER PEOPLE DON’T CINEMAS 6 MEMBERSHIP 8 WELCOME CURZON ON DEMAND 12 CURZON SELECTOR 14 As the dark nights draw in, join us to see out what has been a terrific year in film. We have a programme of awards prospects, A NETFLIX FILM BERTHA DOCHOUSE 16 family favourites, exciting exclusives and some of the world’s NEW RELEASES 18 greatest directors lighting up Curzon cinema screens. EVENTS 42 From the glitz of the London Film Festival’s opening night film, Widows sees Steve McQueen follow up the Oscar- FEATURES 48 winningsuccess of 12 Years A Slave with an explosive modern thriller that transposes Lynda La Plante’s 1980s crime series to a Chicago blighted by political corruption and violent Editor crime. It’s a celebration of the women usually wallpapered Ian Haydn Smith into the background of mainstream genre movies, with Viola Designer Davis leading a cast of bank robbers’ wives whose shared Hannah Attwell circumstances force them to embark on their deceased Contributors husbands’ next job. Kate Gerova | Wendy Ide | Other LFF festival galas on release include Mike Leigh’s Irene Musumeci | Philip Kemp timely Peterloo, the dramatic retelling of the infamous 1819 democratic protest on St Peter’s Field, Manchester, which curzon.cinemas came under brutal attack from armed militia. There’s also CurzonCinemas Alfonso Cuaron’s (Gravity) Venice Golden Lion-winner Roma and the Coen Brothers’ anthology Western, The Ballad Of curzon.cinemas Buster Scruggs.