Disobedience explores these themes in a beautifully crafted tale that will make your heart ache, thanks to two standout leading performances and a great supporting one. So utter has her exile been that she doesn’t know her two dearest childhood friends, Dovid (Alessandro Nivola) and Esti (Rachel McAdams), are now husband and wife. When Dovid, a disciple of her father’s, invites Ronit to stay with them, the fuse is lit and desire — long repressed — explodes between the two women. Director Sebastian Lelio finds symbolism in those smallest of things — a cigarette shared, the sheitel wigs worn by married women that connote duality, the contrast between light and shadow. The kisses between the two Rachels exude tortured passion, their desperate, fumbling embraces steeped in melancholy.

Source: thestar May 17, 2018 16:52 UTC