Definitely worth a watch and overall, there are many interesting bits. You kind of feel dragged through a prescrptive, doctrine of having to depict a certain number of characters in a documentary in a certain manner.
Overall, the film is best when it shows us true insights, but it too often feels maudlin and sentimental, in drawn out slowed down camera shots that don't add that much to our understanding of these people.
And at the end of it, you don't feel to have gone too much into the nitty gritty, more just the outward politics of the hasidic Jews and their philosophies. Sure, there is an attempt to show the inner struggle of the main characters, but it comes off leaving the viewer in a limbo, perhaps where you could consider the main characters to be.
This film doesn't have the emotional reach as it thinks it has perhaps, and so falls short on educating and leaving us with anything much but a cloudy, uncertain mood. Still, it is worth a view for the little insights and moments, which come and go all too quickly.
Overall, the film is best when it shows us true insights, but it too often feels maudlin and sentimental, in drawn out slowed down camera shots that don't add that much to our understanding of these people.
And at the end of it, you don't feel to have gone too much into the nitty gritty, more just the outward politics of the hasidic Jews and their philosophies. Sure, there is an attempt to show the inner struggle of the main characters, but it comes off leaving the viewer in a limbo, perhaps where you could consider the main characters to be.
This film doesn't have the emotional reach as it thinks it has perhaps, and so falls short on educating and leaving us with anything much but a cloudy, uncertain mood. Still, it is worth a view for the little insights and moments, which come and go all too quickly.