Nonetheless, because of the acting, I still felt the emotions and understand the flow.
It was so so good, the actors and actresses impressed me so much !! They are really good! Must watch their other movies and series too! I was a bit confused with the plot and the story because it has no subtitles. So many plot twist, I cannot even guess what would really happen next. I even watched it without any subtitles and had to translate it everytime using a translator.
I was looking everywhere for me to watch this, and finally I found one T^T it was so hard. I guess maybe because it's also hard to find this movie. I sincerely hope this movie finds its best audience in American theaters.One of the best movies! Must watch ♡ No one's rating this or reviewing so I'll do it. Congratulations to the filmmakers and actors. It's not often I come away with a feeling I have truly experienced a romance with faith, with the human heart and with the written word so totally in one film. In the openness of the locations and the beautiful music, the closeness of the camera work puts us in a claustrophobic male-dominated society, just at a moment in time when women are establishing their place in their religion and in their society. It's a story of girls in a repressed society dealing with their first sexual awakening and affection confused bonding as a portion of the story of immersion in their faith and how it transforms their relationship with each other in their involvement with a strange, mystical and salvation-seeking non-Jew. A friend told me to see "this lesbian movie." It's not that. The orthodoxy of their faith, positioned against a seeping modern day sensibility surrounds us as effectively as the location photography transports us (American audiences) to a world we know little about. The actors are all uniformly true to to their characters, and really excellent at involving us in their personal tests of faith and moral dilemma. It's not often I am still remembering the characters, the passion of the heart, the location and faith awakening all in one post-viewing memory. There are so many poorly made, self-conscious and annoying so-called art house films out there, and then there is this gem of a movie. The process opens up overwhelming new horizons for the girls who find themselves caught between the rigid male establishment they grew up in, and the desire to be true to themselves, no matter the cost. In the hopes of easing her suffering, Naomi and Michelle secretly lead Anouk through a series of Kabalistic cleansing rituals. When the pair encounters a mysterious, ailing foreigner with a disturbing past named Anouk (the iconic French actress Fanny Ardant) they begin a risky journey into forbidden realms.
Naomi's quest for individuality takes a defiant turn when she befriends Michelle, a free-spirited and equally headstrong fellow student.
Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed. In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out.