French director Karin Albou makes an impressive debut with this rich and beautifully constructed character study of two Orthodox Jewish women who live with their widowed Tunisian mother in a housing complex in the Parisian suburb known as "Little Jerusalem." Eighteen-year-old Laura (Fanny Valette) and her older married sister, Mathilde (Elsa Zylberstein), are very different women at very different points in their lives, who are nevertheless having similar difficulties finding their exact place in relation to the laws that govern their lives. Unlike Mathilde, whose devout husband, Ariel (Bruno Todeschini), and their four children also live with Mathilde's immigrant mo...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
97 mins