Supplying the unfussy warmth of a mismatched Hal Ashby rom-com, director Nathan Silver's breakthrough soars on performances by Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane.
Have you heard the one about the cantor who can’t sing and the retired music teacher who walk into a bar? In Nathan Silver’s thoroughly charming comedy “Between the Temples,” the only punchline to this setup is that these two find a singular kind of connection with each other. It’s a good thing that the film is completely hilarious too. Writer-director Silver has been churning out intimate, handcrafted character studies for 15 years , but “Between the Temples,” co-written with C.
Sean Price Williams’ elastic cinematography jumps, pulls and zooms with a lively improvisational energy among the appealing cast of characters, and Silver and editor John Magary weave and splice the footage into an amusing romp that often tips into the hallucinatory and surreal, colored by memory, dreams, booze and sometimes drugs. The handmade quality of the film is reflected in the many manual filmmaking techniques on display, such as split diopter shots, optical wipes and irises.
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