The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch

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Jonathan K @RT02305179 Dec 27, 2024 A very clever, funny film. I understand German and some Yiddish and speak Hebrew so it was easy for me to follow in its original format. Some of the scenes were moving, others were hilarious. The film is about the perils, joys and discoveries of a young man leaving the strictures of a tight-knit religious family and community. The ending was unsatisfactory because it left you in suspense, not knowing what the heck happened next. Apart from that, brilliant. See more Mathilda M @RT30487537 Oct 31, 2024 very torn on how i feel about this movie, on one hand its funny and lighthearted, but i feel like the ending made no sense at all? it felt last minuite and rushed, inconclusive and random. Its as if they just halfway through decided they wanted to make pretty much a different film? Also not sure if some of it is mildly antisemitic... See more Greta H @RT64424485 May 20, 2023 Must see movie! It deserves 95% Rotten Tomato score. Early Woody - Allen -esque plot, cinematography, and humor. Fabulous casting. Really well acted. Very funny. Very very clever lines and visuals. When I started watching on Netflix I was convinced until the credits that this was a Woody Allen film I had somehow missed. Viewers would appreciate all the humor more if they know something about Orthodox Jewish culture, but you don't have to be Jewish to love it. I watched it in German with subtitles, which gave me the opportunty to hear the lines delivered by the orginal actors, not dubbed. I have pretty basic German language skills but found the German easy to understand with the help of subtitles. Delightful, quirky comedy. Highly recommend. I cannot understand why this does not have professional movie reviews. See more Aug 14, 2022 I loved the movie and it made me laugh. Too many people took the movie over seriously and ranked it- too bad because it's a comedy people! Chill and enjoy for what it is See more Jul 23, 2022 Motti's awakening comes at the expense of the female characters in this film who are reduced to misogynistic tropes. Whether that's Motti's mother, a caricature of the overbearing Jewish mother, which is self-hating and antisemitic in the screen writer's portrayal. Or the young religious women of his community, who are meek and asexual; and therefore, useless to Motti's sexual awakening. Secular Jewish women and Israeli women are depicted as promiscuous and exotic. And Laura, Motti's gentile love interest, is called a shiksa. An offensive and derogatory name. Motti's shallow rebellion doesn't focus on his rejection of tradition but on his rejection of women; producing a static and one-dimensional story. See more Nov 9, 2019 A little over the top, but LOL funny. Be sure to watch it in German with English subtitles. The English dubbing is Godzilla bad. See more Read all reviews

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