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Mood:
- EmotionalTouchingSentimentalCaptivating
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Plot:
- ImmigrantsInnocence LostCulture ClashFamily LifeMind and SoulSocietyCouplesFamily Relations more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriodIndependentRomanceNew Wave
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Time/Period:
- 1900s
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Place:
- New YorkUSA
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Look:
- B&W
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Hester Street, 1975
English, Yiddish
USA
Profile of Hester Street
The mood of Hester Street is emotional, touching, and sentimental. The plot centers around immigrants, , and culture clash. It is a drama, independent, and period movie. Stylistically, Hester Street is New Wave. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. Hester Street is set in New York. It happens in the 1900s. Visually, it is black and white. Hester Street is based on a book.
Summary of Hester Street
The desire to shed or suppress all traces of one's original culture has been a primal experience of nearly all immigrants; Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation of Abraham Cahan's story makes clear that it's a process edged with pathos. Carol Kane stars as Gitl, an Eastern European Jew who arrives with her child on Ellis Island in 1896 to join her husband, Jake (Stephen Keats). She is surprised to discover that Jake has abandoned the mores of his culture by cutting off his beard and earlocks, and he's adopted the mannerisms of his new country, including a new girlfriend (Dorrie Kavanaugh) who runs a dance hall. Gitl, unwilling to part with traditions so easily, creates a rift in the marriage that is difficult to overcome. Kane, who was nominated for an Oscar, and Micklin Silver, in her directorial debut, collaborate to high-caliber effect in this touching, amazingly painstaking evocation of immigrant life on New York's Lower East Side in the 1890s.
Details
| Language: | English, Yiddish |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 October 1975 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
Cast and Crew
as Gitl
as Jake
as Bernstein
as Poultry Woman
