«So it is not surprising that two of contemporary
cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar -LSB-...] Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be
passionate not only
about Ronit but
about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.
If awards are a snapshot, preserving the consensus thoughts
about cinema at a given time for the sake of posterity, a report from a group of
passionate lovers of film
about what they believe is great in the present moment, then why should they define that snapshot by the parameters of an industry that views their efforts only in the crudest terms?