Disobedience

After her estranged Orthodox Jewish rabbi father (Nicholas Woodeson) suddenly dies of pneumonia in this well-acted, multilayered, bittersweet, unevenly paced, star-dotted (Anton Lesser and Allan Corduner), 114-minute film based on Naomi Alderman's novel, a liberated, passionate, bisexual New York City photographer (Rachel Weisz) heads to London for the funeral despite being shunned years earlier and tries to rekindle a relationship with a repressed schoolteacher (Rachel McAdams) who is in a stifling marriage to a strict rabbi Jewish rabbi (Alessandro Nivola).
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