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Like A Bride

1993, Movie, NR, 115 mins

Like A Bride: Review

LIKE A BRIDE | NOVIA QUE TE VEA
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As a lesson in Mexican sociology, Guita Schyfter's slice of Mexican-Jewish life during the turbulent '60s is really quite informative. As a movie, it's a disaster. Oshinica (Claudette Maille), the teenage daughter of Sephardic Jews who left their native Turkey for Mexico City, runs afoul of her parent's traditional values when she decides to become a painter rather than the bride her mother dreams she'll become. "Oshi" becomes active in the Hashomer, a Zionist Socialist group who stress the importance of leaving Mexico in order to build a Jewish peasantry out of the kibbutzim of Israel. Oshi's parents, meanwhile, have found her a nice Jewish doctor for her to marry. Along with the usual religious and generational tensions, Hugo Hiriart's script (based on a book by Rosa Nissan) points out some interesting conflicts within the small and surprisingly divided Mexican-Jewish community -- snobbery between Turkish Sephardic Jews and the European "Yiddishers"; making a home in Mexico as opposed to a homeland in Israel -- while demystifying the notion of the larger "great Mexican family." Schyfter and Hiriart so want to make the most of this rare opportunity to examine a little-known cultural phenomenon that everything else -- including little things like constructing a logical narrative structure and creating fully written characters -- takes a back seat. What might have been a fascinating story is instead a tedious and pedantic experience, better suited to a lecture hall than a movie theater. leave a comment --Ken Fox
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