'Documentary maker Eric Steel interweaves multiple threads with admirable skill and balance in his engrossing narrative feature debut, 'Minyan.'' Read the review:
Documentary maker Eric Steel interweaves multiple threads with admirable skill and balance in his engrossing narrative feature debut,. Samuel H. Levine, who has turned heads this season on Broadway as one of the leads in the two-part play, brings sensitivity, heart and questioning intelligence to the central role of David, the 17-year-old gay son of a Russian Jewish family in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, in the 1980s.
Steel co-wrote the film with screenwriter Daniel Pearle , based on a short story by Latvian Canadian writer David Bezmozgis. The director shows an assured hand working with his actors, many of them from New York theater backgrounds.
David's mother opposes his wish to assimilate by attending a public school, telling him: "In Jewish school no one can beat you for being a Jew." She's also against his desire to move out and live with Josef. He siphons off vodka from his parents' supply to swig from a flask while he's out with his buddies from Hebrew school, but as they pair off with their girlfriends he's left alone.
There's a lovely, melancholy economy in the way David establishes a bond with these two men, who clearly are a couple even if the community chooses to see them as roommates for the sake of practicality. At the same time, David finds more carnal outlets for his sexuality, cruising parks or the local library, and his curiosity eventually outweighs his fear as he enters an East Village gay bar for the first time.
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