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Sabbath Queen
Directed by
Sandi Simcha Dubowski
NR
2024
1h 45m
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A 39th generation ex-Orthodox rabbi embarks on a remarkable 21-year personal journey, also embracing life as a drag queen.
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Cast of Sabbath Queen
Amichai Lau-Lavie
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Sandi Simcha Dubowski
Director / Writer / Producer
Francisco Bello
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Jeremy Stulberg
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Sabbath Queen Ratings & Reviews
Film Threat
Christophe Bilien
Sabbath Queen constantly finds ways to renew our interest throughout its 105 minutes and does so with great intelligence and respect.
The SS Ben Hecht
Stephen Silver
Filmed over more than 20 years, the film follows this fascinating figure through various changes in his own life, as well as in American Jewish life.
New York Times
Elisabeth Vincentelli
But we also watch [Lau-Lavie] talk about many events, like becoming a father or cofounding the aforementioned experimental Lab/Shul initiative, while he is still in the middle of experiencing them, rather than speaking with the benefit of hindsight.
Gay City News
Steve Erickson
"Sabbath Queen" reflects the two different interpretations of Judaism represented by Amichai and his brother through its editing.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Provocative and eye-opening, but overstuffed and unfocused.
Awards Buzz
Abe Friedtanzer
Though some may not agree with all of his opinions or the way he practices his religion, this documentary makes it impossible to deny his startlingly authentic spirituality.
Moveable Fest
Stephen Saito
DuBowski affords his subject's spiritual journey the epic quality it deserves where triumph is simply waking up at peace with where you are, recognizing all the places emotionally - and in Lau-Lavie's case, geographically - you have to go to get there.
IndieWire
Ryan Lattanzio
Taking on multiple decades of the man's life means this film loses its way sometimes amid a scattered approach, but Sabbath Queen shrewdly asks hard questions about what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century.
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Dan Bayer
That's all well and good, but something special happens in the film's last quarter that makes it required viewing not just for queer people, not just for Jews, but for everyone.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
Robyn Bahr
... The director delicately contextualizes his subject's desired legacy by threading Lau-Lavie's harrowing familial history into the narrative.
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