Synopsis
Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.
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Cast
- Nathan CoganDolfo
- Hippolyte GirardotAntoine
- Ludmila MikaëlIsabelle, la femme de Simon
- Michel JonaszSimon Rashevski
- Daniel MesguichDavid Rashevski
- Jonathan ZaccaïJonathan Rashevski, le fils de Simon
- Tania GarbarskiNina Rashevski, la fille de Simon
- Rudi RosenbergRic Rashevski, le fils de David
- Selma KouchyKhadija, l'amie de Ric
- Moscu AlcalayShmouel, le père de Simon et David
Recommendations
- 60
Time Out
Director Sam Garbarski’s focus occasionally skews narrow, but he does evoke the anxiety of reconciling a strict faith with secular times. - 50
Village Voice
The Rashevski Tango begins and ends with a burial, but the movie teems with cranky life, then heals all rifts with a dance that sets a seal of comically erotic approval on that undying genre, the domestic melodrama. - 50
Variety
Picture touchingly conveys the everyday closeness of the Rashevskis, who are wont to tango their troubles away, but spiritual upheavals and tonal shifts feel artificial and strained. - 50
The New York Times
In the end, though, Mr. Garbarski makes no judgments, which leaves this film feeling sweet but light: we already knew that Judaism, like most other religions, is an ever-evolving collage. - 40
New York Daily News
The central metaphor of dance, though, is forced, a standard-issue cliché about dancing away problems.
