Director Sandi DuBowski ('Trembling Before G-d') chronicles Amichai Lau-Lavie, a drag queen and subversive Jewish storyteller who chooses to become a conservative rabbi.
, which follows the evolution of Amichai Lau-Lavie, a drag queen and radically egalitarian performer in the New York Jewish community who chose to become a denominationally conservative rabbi later in life.about gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews reconciling their opposing identities, does not fashion a hagiography of Lau-Lavie’s seemingly admirable life.
The brilliance of the film is not just in DuBowski’s fascinating longitudinal chronicling of Lau-Lavie’s life’s work, but how the director delicately contextualizes his subject’s desired legacy by threading Lau-Lavie’s harrowing familial history into the narrative. Lau-Lavie, the scion of a prominent, conservative Ashkenazi-Israeli political and religious dynasty, fled his home country in his 20s after he was outed as gay in the press in the late 1990s.
For years, Amichai saw himself primarily as a subversive artist and performer whose goal was to transgress against the solemnity of synagogue and infuse showmanship into Jewish services to enliven stultified congregants. He befriended countless queer Jews who also felt left behind by conventional Judaism but were similarly not prepared to abandon the religion altogether.
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