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Friday, 6 December 2024

Between the Temples (2024)


Suffering a crisis of faith after the loss of his wife, a man finds comfort in reuniting with his childhood music teacher, while she seeks to have the bat mitzvah she was denied as a child. Both of their families disapprove.
I kind of really didn't like this movie at all. Don't get me wrong; I think Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman are great, but I didn't buy the Harold and Maude angle in the least, especially because it seemed strangely one-sided and completely out of the blue. Meanwhile, he's got this great girl fawning over him and he rejects her? Does not compute.

2 car BJs out of 5

5 comments:

Neg said...

The last Harold-and-Maude-type-product I saw, I saw because Billie Joe was in it. He CANNOT act. He disappeared after, I think, two scenes, and I fast-forwarded so much trying to find him, that the credits rolled after what felt like 30 minutes. They put a blurb on the box advertising that a Grammy Award winner was in it! Don't big him up like that, you jackasses =P It was BIZARRE. The kid was quite the edgelord. That's coming from me XD

You sound very Kevin Smith, there, at the end~

budarc said...

I had to look it up to figure out what it was. Turns out he's only been in like two movies. Was it "Like Sunday, Like Rain"? I hadn't heard of it. Looks like he had the leading part in a movie called "Ordinary World" in 2016, so I wonder if his acting improved since then.

Neg said...

That's the one! Ordinary World is the last track on Revolution Radio. You likely know that, though. Makes me wonder how much of a connection there is... Might be worth it. Doc and I have a real soft spot for that album.

They have it, at the library. Gotta happen, right?

budarc said...

In case you're not able to find it at the library, I could hook you up with a digital copy if you're able to play it on your end. I've been slowly corrupting Doc into becoming a cyber criminal like me, too.

Neg said...

I appreciate the thought, but we'll be up that way, soon enough. We know someone who works there. I bet they could tell us how many times it's been checked out. I wager not a lot~