A Movie Review on Arranged Marraige

Maine Women's Fund is proud to sponsor the Maine Jewish Film Festival. We asked board member and leader within the New Girls Network, Lindsay Cadwallader, to review "Arranged," a film about arranged marriages presented in the Maine Jewish Film Festival. We hope you'll attend the screening of the film and a special conversation with the woman who commissioned the film on Sunday after the film at 1:30 PM. Here's what Lindsay had to say.

Arranged is an interesting, sweet movie about two young women; one Muslim and one Orthodox Jewish-- whose families are trying to arrange marriages for them. The movie feels like a documentary. The characters and their families are real. The friendship between the two women is the type of friendship that one would expect to see after a summer at the Seeds of Peace camp. The women are both teachers at a school and both find comfort in each other because both of them must deal with the ignorance of their principal who does not understand their traditional, deeply-held beliefs. The movie does a good job of examining arranged marriages from a modern, post-feminist lens and at the same time allows the viewer to see the value in it. I enjoyed it immensely.

Comments

[Young Jeffrey]

What a spot on review. Terrific!