The 10 best movies we saw at Sundance
PARK CITY, Utah — We came, we saw, and even though this profession has a way of beating down the best of us, we were transported by movies — a curiosity that will never die. Here are the 10 best films we saw in Park City at an eventful, surprisingly robust Sundance.
‘Between the Temples’
There’s a wonderful throwback quality to “Between the Temples,” with its screwball sensibility and committed performances. Directed by Nathan Silver, who co-wrote the screenplay with C. Mason Wells, the story follows a cantor at a suburban synagogue (Jason Schwartzman) who, while still in emotional freefall following the death of his wife, impulsively takes on a grown woman (Carol Kane) as a bat mitzvah student. Their relationship isn’t exactly romantic, but it does see two people in deep need of emotional connection finding each other at just the right (or is it wrong?) moment. The story builds to a brilliant iteration on an old Sundance staple, the dysfunctional family dinner, weaving together its strands for a series of outrageous revelations. A comedy about learning
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