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The film’s conflict stems from the messiness of the human heart. “What I tried to do is not make the community the antagonistic force, but to make [each character] an antagonist,” Lelio said. “They are their own main obstacles.” Though Ronit and Esti set the conflict in motion, ultimately Dovid — the devout student and rabbi — faces the direst conse- quences. The fulfillment of his spiritual role ends up demanding a disobedience all his own. “Everything that he stands for and everything he has prepared for is jeopardized,” Lelio said. “He’s really facing a huge dilemma. And it’s quite moving to see him strug- gle with having the bravery to be generous.” Sometimes, Lelio said, the most godly act requires the moral cour- age to dissent. “One of the main ideas of the film is that there’s nothing more spiritual than the power to disobey. There is something pure in that. Sometimes we have to disobey in order to transcend, in order to survive,” he said. “And there is violence, and there is beauty in that. And I think the film tries to embrace both aspects — the light and shadows of the price they have to pay.” The act of disobedience, Lelio added, “suggests that a new order is possible; a new balance is pos- sible. Everything is evolving. And even though the wisdom of tradi- tion is capable of holding great truth, it also has to be challenged. Because even galaxies are evolv- ing, the whole universe is evolving, everything is in flux. “And the beautiful love story that takes place in this kind of an environment [suggests] that there is always room for expansion and change.” • 5 OFF $ +++++++++++++++++++++++++ allure of religion. “Even though I’m so far away from the [Orthodox Jewish] real- ity, I do understand the dynamics of a culture where the weight of religion can be strong and influen- tial, and how that can create ten- sion between what the community needs and the personal quest for individual freedom,” Lelio said. To prepare for the film, Lelio immersed himself in the mores and values governing Orthodox Jewish religious life. He sought to under- stand what his characters risked by transgressing those rules in a gay relationship. Weisz, the Jewish daughter of survivors and a pro- ducer on the film, said in produc- tion notes that Lelio approached Orthodox Judaism as “a cultural anthropologist.” “I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to be in such a pri- vate world,” Lelio said of the time he spent with the North London Orthodox community, in which the film is set. In addition to working with nearly a dozen consultants, Lelio attended worship services and Jewish ceremonies. “I became really obsessed with the culture in the process,” he said. “I was really moved by the com- munity, the music, the rituals. When they open the ark, when we see the Torah, I was like, ‘This is so powerful!’ And the narrative [the Torah tells] has been refined for centuries. That is so beautiful and effective, and I was attracted to it because I am a narrative person myself.” McAdams, who plays Esti and is not Jewish, has said she prepared for the role by attending Shabbat dinners with Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles. Likewise, Alessandro Nivola, who plays Dovid, the heir-apparent rabbi, has said that the research he undertook to play this role was the most interesting and rewarding of his career, and that the friendships he formed over Shabbat dinners produced “friends for life.” And yet, no matter how much he and his actors prepared, Lelio said the Orthodox community remained enigmatic to them. “There’s no way to really know it,” Lelio said. “It’s very secretive in a way, and I guess that’s what was really appealing for me — the possibility of creating these por- traits that were taking place in an unknown world with such a precise system of beliefs, rules, rituals, aesthetics, traditions and music. 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