Ezer Kenegdo (2017)

"A friendship at odds with history and two histories at odds with a friendship"Movie
Audience Score
45
Ezer Kenegdo
PG13 1 hr 41 minOct 27th, 2017
Frictions develop when Yisroel Izzy Jonigkeyt a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights travels to San Francisco to visit Polishborn Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area artworld iconoclast named Harry Kierk seeks to destroy a lifetimes worth of his own work As the visit progresses Izzy and Marek discover for the first time that complex historical baggage impinges on their curious friendship and soon they begin to understand why Kierk is driven towards destruction Continued encounters with Mareks vaguely antiSemitic cousin Irek who is their only gateway to contact Kierk only compound these tensions