Between the Temples (15)

★★★★ An odd-couple comedy which plays like loose Jewish jazz. ~ Financial Times.

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Jason Schwartzman stars as a cantor, who in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher (Carol Kane) re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.

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★★★★★ Jason Schwartzman confirms his status as one of the funniest actors in independent cinema with this bockety Jewish comedy about two caricatures finding an unlikely solace in one another at different stages in their lives. ~ Irish Independent.

★★★★ Playing a bereaved synagogue cantor and his former primary school music teacher, Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane light up Nathan Silver’s endearing odd couple tale; a bittersweet screwball comedy with shades of Harold and Maude. ~ The Observer.

★★★★ A wise, wistful dramedy. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★ It’s a little weird, a little sweet and a lot of awkward – a testament not just to the Jewish tradition but the faith we can learn to have in each other. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ A charming, melancholic May-December romance. ~ The Times.