When is a couch more than just a piece of furniture? For video artist Pearl Gluck, that question leads to a host of others, all explored in this touching documentary that, while documenting Gluck's search for a 100-year-old family heirloom, also deals with her troubled relationship with her father and the Hasidic community she's left behind. The couch in question is a high-backed Hungarian divan that owes its iconic status to the fact that ever since it was first acquired by her great-great-grandfather, it's served as a guest bed for three generations of high ranking Hasidic rabbis. For Gluck, the divan acquires an even greater significance when she hatches a plan to...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
77 mins