Fresh
It's always gratifying to see a movie in which an ostensibly closed-off community is depicted humanely rather than voyeuristically.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Overview
A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.
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Fresh
Luzer Twersky as Shulem, Meira's controlling husband, is a fine example of the film's willingness to extend empathy to all of its characters, and its refusal to pigeonhole them into a black and white moral landscape.
Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Giroux mistakes long, wordless scenes of characters gazing at each other for tenderness, but he imaginatively uses gospel music as the forbidden food of love ...
Joe McGovern, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
This tenderly observed love story (by the director, Maxime Giroux) isn't about religion - or its lack - but about the attraction of difference and the undeniable need to feel alive.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
What's missing here is the vitality and sense of release the couple's romance should bring. Felix and Meira continue to pine and mope; the movie mopes with them in exhausting, often awkwardly intrusive detail.
Ella Taylor, NPR
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