The Israeli movie Hatuna Hafucha (2020) was shown in the U. S. with the title Marry Me However. Mordechai Vardi was the writer, producer, and director.
Observant gay Jews in Israel face an impossible dilemma. There is tremendous social pressure on them to marry and produce children. However, because they are gay, marriage to a woman is not really a workable option.
Nonetheless, many gay men do, indeed marry. That leaves them unsatisfied and leaves their wives in a terrible, poignant situation.
The movie doesn't provide a solution. It just sympathetically outlines this problem, which at the moment can't be solved. None of us can say whether Orthodox Judaism will accept this problem, and attempt to solve it. Right now there is no place to turn.
We saw this movie virtually under the auspices of the outstanding Rochester Jewish Film Festival. The film has an IMDb rating of 8.1, but with just a handful of raters. I thought it was even better than that, and rated it 9.
Observant gay Jews in Israel face an impossible dilemma. There is tremendous social pressure on them to marry and produce children. However, because they are gay, marriage to a woman is not really a workable option.
Nonetheless, many gay men do, indeed marry. That leaves them unsatisfied and leaves their wives in a terrible, poignant situation.
The movie doesn't provide a solution. It just sympathetically outlines this problem, which at the moment can't be solved. None of us can say whether Orthodox Judaism will accept this problem, and attempt to solve it. Right now there is no place to turn.
We saw this movie virtually under the auspices of the outstanding Rochester Jewish Film Festival. The film has an IMDb rating of 8.1, but with just a handful of raters. I thought it was even better than that, and rated it 9.