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‘Between the Temples’ Review: Jason Schwartzman Gives Carol Kane a Belated Bat Mitzvah in a Winningly Off-Kilter Comedy
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane have delightful chemistry in Nathan Silver's alternately raucous and tender comedy 'Between the Temples.'
The discussion often takes quaintly prudish forms, permitting no adult age at which such differences cease to matter, but if it circulates most heatedly among the young, it’s been handed down to them via age-old social rules and biases — ones to which Nathan Silver ‘s delightful “ Between the Temples ” gives a cheerfully flippant middle finger. Aaron is a husky, jangly delight as Ben’s permissive mother, while De Leon, recently the salty standout of “Triangle of Sadness,” extends her scene-stealing credentials: She’s both very funny and thornily moving as a Jewish convert whose approach to her chosen religion is as zealously rulebound as Carla’s is airily selective. Silver’s casual filmmaking style, meanwhile, situates his cast in a dual atmosphere of jagged realism and rough-and-tumble farce: Sean Price Williams’ handheld lensing and John Magary’s editing are both antsy in all the right ways, mirroring the characters’ restlessness, their nervousness, and their occasional, ill-planned, briefly glorious lunges at rebellion, moral and spiritual naysayers be damned.
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