Disobedience

2017 Directed by Sebastián Lelio

Love is an act of defiance

A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood friend, who is now married to her cousin.

Rachel Weisz Rachel McAdams Alessandro Nivola Cara Horgan Liza Sadovy Omri Rose Anton Lesser Dominic Applewhite Bernardo Santos Allan Corduner Nicholas Woodeson Alexis Zegerman Mark Stobbart David Olawale Ayinde Adam Lazarus Bernice Stegers Dave Simon Sophia Brown Steve Furst Trevor Allan Davies Caroline Gruber

Alternative Titles

Desobedencia, 디서비디언스, Nepovinoveniye

romance drama

114 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

Popular reviews

Review by Demi Adejuyigbe ★★★½ 19

inter-rachel love is beautiful
Review by lauren ★★★★★ 4

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

“oh! hmmmm oh my,” — the elderly man behind us after rachel weisz spit in rachel mcadams’ mouth
Review by hibs 1

heterosexuality was found dead in miami
Review by willa ★★★ 2

trying to calculate how much money she spent changing her plane ticket
Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 6

“i used to think about your life in new york. i tried to imagine your room. i kept track of the time difference... so i knew when you were awake and when you were asleep”
a tender star-crossed daydream. the three main character dynamics are special enough on their own, but the romance that blooms at the center is cathartically intimate and even magical: a reunion that feels so inevitable. catching glimpses of a past life, details we aren’t privy to. all the stolen kisses and whispers and promises. a bond so strong that they fall back in sync with each other like second nature, even if they try to fight against it. even if it won’t work. and yet they choose each other, even if for a few minutes
Review by savannah ★★★½ 3

wig: snatched
spit: swallowed
judaism: orthodox

Recent reviews

Review by Mia ★★★★

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beautifully shot and a realistic ending that brings some closure. a poetic and kind of heartbreaking story.
although I'd want esti to go with ronit, i think having her stay was an unfortunately realistic route </3
only negative that really stands out is that sometimes the score felt really off, but besides that, a beautiful film.
also, i want both of them to spit in my mouth lmao
Review by Brynn ★★★★

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If I were Esti I simply would’ve said “fùck them kids”
Review by Steve G 💚 10

The Letterboxd Era Catch-Up 4: 53 Days a Slave
I incorrectly predicted on my Twitter that Disobedience would separate my entire arse from my body through boredom. But it's still a choppy old ride.
It was on pretty shaky ground before Rachel McAdams started throwing up in the sink. They couldn't just do this story without throwing a pregnancy in the mix, could they. There are a few storytelling techniques or reliances that lazy writers throw in as a cheap way to drum up tension, and a pregnancy has to be near the top of that list.
They've been together for years have old Esti and Dovid, and only *now*, when the former's true love pops back into town to…
Review by jupiter ★★★★

DROPPING WIGS
Review by Emma ★★★★½

thought about it more and i really needed this movie tbh
Review by juliacarvalho ½

uma pena que não haja uma escala negativa pois esse filme certamente ultrapassaria limites matemáticos do horrível. então, como em todo filme problemático, chorei como um bebê. fetichista, raso e muito mal feito, ele me fez querer vomitar mais de uma vez.
Review by danieleldr3d ★★★

Ah Shit Here We Go Again
Week 2

That sex scene was definitely... eye-opening.
Review by Ya boi, Mike. ★★★

They somehow managed to make this story into something really bland and forgettable.
Review by zam ★★★★½

“What happened to you?“
“Nothing,” A pause. “You happened to me.“

there’s just something with lovers finding their way back to each other after a long time and the unsaid words spilling out of their system even if they don’t want to.