Review of La petite Jérusalem

Laura is a pure young woman searching herself between her very orthodox religious background and Kantian philosophy. Then came the discovery of her own desire and sensuality. Though the man she loves cannot authorize himself to take distance with his own background, and hence Laura has to give up her romantic and high expectations, she goes on accepting her desires and taking distance with religion to find an allayed balance. On this path her sister helps her subtly (half conscious of it and above all, being non judgemental) and doing so finds her own way to live her sensuality within religion. A beautifully filmed initiatory path. Where even ugly Parisian suburbs are full of the light brought by Laura's purity. Where development of one member in a family brings development for everybody, because human beings live in network and there is no way your own inner changes have no impact on, at the very least, your relatives.