Four Questions for a Rabbi + Mr Rakowski (with Q&A)
Venue: Showroom 2
Thursday 06 November 2008 11:40
4 Questions for a Rabbi
Part homage to a friend and filmmaker Stacey Ross, who recently took her own life, Rosenblatt has also created a profound assertion of identity, family and what it means to be Jewish.
Mr Rakowski
Sam Rakowski survived the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau to build a new life in the US. Now a widower in his nineties, he lives in a house on the estate of his successful son, Richie, who makes sure he is well cared for. But Richie, who adored his mother, finds his father impossible to communicate with, and has always done so. Richie is now sure that the ice man he considers his father to be has nothing to do with the war. Jan Diederen's assured, probing film unpeels the dark secrets underlying their dysfunctional relationship in a moving testimony to the difficult complexities of family love.This that is one of the most powerful emotional journeys of the year.