
A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute.... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute.
Leave your thoughts about Fill the Void.
| Moveable FestStephen SaitoFor better or worse, Burshtein elides a specific critique of the religious ideology that has forced Shira into marriage in the first place. |
| Killer Movie ReviewsAndrea Chasean exquisite, poetic film that is full of both the joy of life, even in grief, and in the fact that life inevitably goes on |
| amNewYorkRobert LevinA lesser filmmaker would have condescended to this world, but Rama Burshtein, an Orthodox woman herself, treats it with abiding respect. Her movie is a masterpiece. |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip MartinBurshstein has managed a small miracle with his gentle film ... . A movie about matters of faith that manages to be neither condescending nor smug ... a surprisingly accessible and satisfying experience. |
| Washington PostStephanie MerryThe movie confounds at times with its aversion to clearly explaining each relationship and ritual, but ultimately that makes each realization seem more like a new discovery. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsIt's an artful, character-driven drama that constitutes a minor miracle of empathy. |
| OregonianMarc Mohan"Fill the Void" is a fairly somber affair, its dourness only interrupted occasionally by moments of beauty or grace. |
| NewsdayJohn AndersonBurshtein creates a one-of-a-kind portrait that nonetheless transcends its setting, and even its worldview; the dynamics are global. |
| Boston GlobePeter KeoughBurshtein has achieved a gripping film without victims or villains, an ambiguous tragedy drawing on universal themes of love and loss, self-sacrifice and self-preservation. |
| Film-Forward.comKent TurnerFor its clarity and lack of pretension alone, Void stands apart ... beautifully acted |