For a story where faith plays a pivotal role, it’s appropriate that two of the pivotal characters in “The Tenth Man” are perpetually off-screen. Just as writer/director Daniel Burman asks us to understand people and ideas we cannot see, the story of a middle-aged Jewish man’s Buenos Aires homecoming becomes defined by what keeps its attention. Focusing on the personal, it keeps its scope small, to mostly compelling effect.
Home from New York for the week before Purim, Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) spends most of his days reconnecting with the Jewish neighborhood in the Argentinian capital, forestalling an eventual reunion with his estranged father Usher. As the days pass before the holiday, Ariel offers his time at Usher’s charity, making deliveries to hospital patients and negotiating with the local butcher. Through his efforts to help out, Ariel spends more time with Eva (Julieta Zylberberg), a young woman...
Home from New York for the week before Purim, Ariel (Alan Sabbagh) spends most of his days reconnecting with the Jewish neighborhood in the Argentinian capital, forestalling an eventual reunion with his estranged father Usher. As the days pass before the holiday, Ariel offers his time at Usher’s charity, making deliveries to hospital patients and negotiating with the local butcher. Through his efforts to help out, Ariel spends more time with Eva (Julieta Zylberberg), a young woman...
- 8/4/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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