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August 23, 2024

At The Movies: In ‘Between the Temples,' Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane make beautiful music

By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer

In Nathan Silver's divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who, after the death of his wife, can't sing anymore but who finds a strange kinship with a much older widow ( Carol Kane ) seeking her bat mitzvah.

Yes, that old story. But even that brief synopsis doesn't really begin to hint at the singularity – or the delight – of “Between the Temples.” The movie's grammar – 16mm, improvisational, shot purposeful erratically by Sean Price Williams – is just as antic as its story. In this winningly chaotic comedy, you can almost feel the characters and filmmakers, as one, resisting order and pushing back against convention.


 
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