“Are you Jewish?”
Perceiving it as a loaded question, Jamie Kastner takes his cue from balshy documentary star Michael Moore and begins a road trip from New York to Auschwitz seeking motives behind the question.
Beginning with a shotgun bar mitzvah in Brooklyn by proselytising Chasidim, things become decidedly less kosher. Kastner is turfed from Pat [...]
November 19, 2007
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“Dunkelman. Do you know what kind of name that is?”
“Well it certainly aint Irish”
“It’s Jewish”
With these words begins the turbulent relationship between Danny Dunkelman (David Strathairn), a progressive, liberal lawyer and his client Michael Downey (Andrew Walker), an embittered self-declared ‘foot soldier of the Aryan resistance’, who’s inside for a racially motivated murder.
The film pits [...]
November 12, 2007
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