Disobedience

Directed by SEBASTIÁN LELIO

Starring RACHEL WEISZ, RACHEL MCADAMS, ALESSANDRO NIVOLA

Released 30 NOVEMBER

If you chemically formulated the concept of middlebrow art, transported it to a lab and then attempted to discover what the very, would turn up in the test tube. It’s a hackneyed tale of forbidden love amid North London’s orthodox Jewish community, and it methodically tells you exactly what you’re supposed to feel, who you’re supposed to admire and who you’re supposed to despise with a grimly methodical rigour. As with his previous film, 2017’s , Lelio seems convinced that those who don’t harbour a progressive worldview are evil incarnate, and so we are shown a raft of devoutly religious folk who think nothing of oppressing those acolytes who refuse to toe their deeply conservative line.