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Film Review: Individualism in ‘Menashe’ Challenges the Tribe

Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 15, 2017 - 10:13am

CHICAGO – We all belong to something, be it a family, workplace, congregation or (expansively) a tribe. But within all that belonging is a sometimes nagging feeling of being an outsider. There is not a human being in existence that hasn’t felt that way, and a new film expresses that feeling in “Menashe.”

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