Richard Brody reviews Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples,” a film starring Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane about a grief-stricken cantor unable to sing and his friendship with an elder bat-mitzvah student.
Schwartzman plays Benjamin Gottlieb, a forty-year-old cantor at a small synagogue in upstate New York. He has taken an extended sabbatical from his liturgical duties: his wife, Ruth, a novelist, died a year before, and grief has deprived him of the ability to sing. He lives with his “moms”—his actual mother, Meira , an artist, and her wife, Judith , a real-estate broker—in their basement.
Before realizing that she’s “unattached,” he frets, “Do you think I need work done?” A few days later, outside the synagogue, he’s ambushed by another woman, Leah , who, unbeknownst to him, connected with him on JDate. Ben’s moms aren’t alone in trying to play matchmaker. In his office, his boss, Rabbi Bruce Koenig , acknowledging Ben’s miseries, talks of his daughter, Gabby , who’s also been going through “a very rough time.
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