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Amy Irving and Peter Riegert appear in Crossing Delancey currently
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or those of you who
not enraptured by the
Italian "schmaltz" of
Moonstruck and prefer sour
kosher pickles over fettucini
Crossing Delancey offers a
wonderful substitute. Joan
Micklin Silver, the director of
heart-rending Hester Street,
has again provided American
audiences and especially
Jewish audiences, with a
wonderful slice of American
Jewish life.
Imagine the main female
characters of both Hester
Street and Yentl being time
machined to the contem-
porary setting with all its
modern day problems. It
would not be a huge surprise
to find the Jewish immigrant
woman and female yeshivah
student have become the
modern-day, professional
single woman living out a
successful career in New York
City while seeking to find
"Mr. Right."
In Crossing Delancey
Isabelle Grossman,
delightfully played by Amy
Irving, is quite content with
her work as a bookstore
manager, and flirting with a
pretentious author, artfully
acted by Jeroen Krabbe. But
for her Bubbie Kantor,
delightfully portrayed by
Reizel Bozyk, Isabelle's single
status at the ripe old age of 33
is tantamount to sacrilegious.
So Bubbie runs interference
in her liberated grand-
daughter's life and arranges
Former Detroiter Aviva Kempner
is a filmmaker currently working
on a documentary about Hank
Greenberg.
for the overly "yenta"-acted
matchmaker, played by Syvia
Miles, to find her a find and
catch her a catch. Only in the
movies is the match a
wonderful, loving man, Sam
Posner, performed caringly by
wonderful actor Peter Riegert
who impressed audiences
with his delightful perfor-
mance in The Local Hero.
Sam just happens to sell
pickles and wash his hands in
vanilla to take away the dill
smell. Of course, the flir-
tatious writer, intense and
seemingly brilliant, turns out
to be a perfect schmuck. As a
modern-day evolvement of
gender blending, Isabelle
delivers a strong dose of
female insensitivity.
The heart of the film does
not stem from this debatably
feasible plotline of pickles
versus bookstore and single-
hood versus matchmaker. The
continued poignancy and core
of the story is the loving rela-
tionship that has been
developed by screenwriter
Susan Sandler, based on her
original play. One cannot help
but both cry and laugh while
watching these marvelous
scenes between Amy Irving
and Reizl Bozyk. They are -
just right together even when
Bubbie is imposing her old
world concepts of life and love
on her granddaughter.
Reizl Bozyk, steeped in the
tradition of the Yiddish
theater, is just wonderful as
Bubbie. She collects old cam-
paign bags and has her
granddaughter pluck her
chin hairs and attend her self-
defense class. One cannot
help but wish that she will
win best supporting actress
next year and deliver her
speech in Yiddish.