Sabbath Queen

Name: Sabbath Queen
Genre: Biography, Animation, Documentary
Released: November 22, 2024
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 81

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Roco Films | Release Date: November 22, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Filmed over 21 years, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly,Filmed over 21 years, Sabbath Queen follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie’s epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag-queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation. The film interrogates what Jewish survival means in a difficult rapidly changing 21st century.… Expand

Genre(s): Biography, Animation, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 105 min

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Robyn Bahr

Nov 21, 2024

Ultimately, Sabbath Queen isn’t interested in the headline-grabbing macro conflicts that embroil Jews globally, but the internal culture wars within Judaism itself: fascistic fundamentalism versus reformist progressivism; dominant cishet masculinity versus burgeoning feminine and gender nonconforming voices; hallowed bloodlines versus chosen family. It is one of the best films I’ve seen this year. Read full review

Elisabeth Vincentelli

Nov 21, 2024

[A] fascinating look at the act of questioning yourself and your family, your surroundings and your decisions. Read full review

Christophe Bilien

Jan 9, 2025

Sabbath Queen constantly finds ways to renew our interest throughout its 105 minutes and does so with great intelligence and respect. Read full review

IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Nov 21, 2024

DuBowski’s activist portrait Sabbath Queen is overwhelmingly ambitious in its time-spanning, as searching and curious as its primary subject. We don’t leave the movie with a firm sense of who Amichai is beyond his religious backdrop, but I think that’s the point: Who he is as a person has become muddled and tangled up with the one he’s supposed to represent. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Nov 21, 2024

This fast-paced, well-shot doc does place its finger on the quickening pulse of an ever-wider gap between liberalizing Western social values and the Orthodox sphere that believes they are antithetical to Judaism. It’s a painful divide, but one that Sabbath Queen helps keep at least partly in the realm of civil argument. Read full review

The Playlist Brian Farvour

Nov 21, 2024

There’s too much good here that doesn’t deserve to be overlooked, and this is where the film misses the mark. Read full review

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