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- "To Dust" (2018 release; 91 min.) brings the story of Shmuel, an Orthodox Jew.
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The portrait of Shmuel will probably offend Orthodox Jews, despite — or perhaps because of — his continuous exclamations that everything he's doing is 'not Jewish.' The spirit of inquiry is extremely Jewish, but different communities have different levels of tolerance for going outside the lines."
To Dust: Directed by Shawn Snyder. With Géza Röhrig, Matthew Broderick, Sammy Voit, Sarah Jes Austell. Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in upstate New York, distraught by the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay.
- (1.2K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Shawn Snyder
- 2018-04-22
Feb 8, 2019 · For Shmuel (Géza Röhrig), it’s the thought of his recently deceased wife’s decomposing corpse. She died of cancer, and now, the widower, a Hasidic Jew, has nightmares of her big toe, blackened and decaying, splitting at the tip and blooming like the petals of some ghastly flower. From his religious experience, Shmuel, a cantor at his ...
Feb 13, 2019 · “To Dust” was shot in the summer of 2017 in upstate New York in a Chasidic community and a Jewish cemetery. It was a challenging endeavor but a dream come true for Snyder, who has wanted to...
- Gerri Miller
Apr 26, 2018 · Her body is prepared for quick burial in the Orthodox Jewish tradition, a process which Snyder documents in painstaking detail. Through the rituals, she's connected to millennia of tradition,...
- Marshall Shaffer
Mar 13, 2019 · But the eccentric relationship between Shmuel (Son of Saul’s Géza Röhrig) and Albert (Matthew Broderick) speaks volumes to the rationalizations and compromises people are forced to make with faith – especially a faith as deeply entrenched in religious laws as Hasidic Judaism.
Mar 6, 2019 · Rohrig plays Shmuel, a Hasidic Jewish cantor whose wife dies of cancer as the movie opens. After she’s buried, he becomes obsessed with needing to know how her body is decaying. Understanding...
