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Searching For
Her Roots
a film by Pearl Gluck
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No couch potato, filmmaker tracks down
family in "Divan."
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employs wall-to-wall music that stretch-
es beyond traditional Chasidic songs and
up-tempo klezmer riffs to fuzz-toned
electric guitar.
nce upon a time, a young girl
Unfortunately, it's often mixed
with the unorthodox
so loud that it submerges the
urge to discover and
dialogue or narration.
impact the world beyond her
The center of Gluck's movie is
Brooklyn Chasidic community
the ancient family divan, or couch, upon
adopted Barbra Streisand's activist char-
which — legend has it — several great
acter in The Way We Were as a role
rebbes chanced to sleep long ago in the
model.
Old Country.
In her irreverent first-person docu-
Awarded a Fulbright grant to spend a
mentary, Divan, the grown-up Pearl
year in Hungary compiling Yiddish oral
Gluck uses a clip from the movie to
histories, the 20-something Gluck
illustrate the period in her life when she
devotes part of her trip to tracking down
first realized that
(and, hopefully, bring-
Chasidic life was too
ing
home) the oversize
confining for her
_.
relic.
curiosity and ambi-
This entails bestow-
tions.
ing kosher chocolate
By the end of this
and other gifts on the
fast-paced and deftly
cousin who's in posses-
constructed film, it's
sion of the divan.
apparent that Gluck
In turn, he takes her
has more in common
on
a fascinating road
with the actress than
trip to her great-great-
just frizzy curls. She
Pearl Gluck on the family divan grandfather's padlocked
also has la Streisand's
small-town house, where
chutzpah, as well as a lit-
the object of her obsession has resided
tle bit of the control freak.
for decades.
Divan screens Monday, Aug. 30, at
The couch, of course, is a metaphor
the Detroit Film Theatre.
for the filmmaker's roots and identity,
A modern and welcome spin on the
and a device through which she con-
Jewish roots documentary, Divan
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Ten years after AMIA bombing,
10 short films examine fateful day.
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Buenos Aires
is the morning of July 18, 1994:
Jaco and Marga, who are planning
a trip to Israel to meet their 2-
year-old grandson for the first time,
discuss what size T-shirt to bring him.
They begin arguing because Jaco
wants to eat the sweets Marga is cook-
ing for the family in Israel. They even
talk about how to hide their daily
quarrels from their daughter, Andrea,
when she calls.
Then they leave the building to pick
up their plane tickets — but just at
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that moment, the AMIA Jew i sh com-
munity center next to their house
explodes,. and Jaco and Marga are
among the 85 killed.
These scenes are part of the film 18-
J, which was released in Argentina on
Aug. 19. The 107-minute film is dis-
tinguished by its heterogeneity: The
National Film Institute coordinated the
project, which consists of 10 short
films of 10 minutes each by different
directors, most of them renowned.
Daniel Burman, 31, whose film A
Lost Embrace won several prizes at the
recent Berlin Film Festival, filmed
neighbors and employees who lived on
Pasteur Street, close to the AMIA