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At Sundance, the AIDS crisis through the eyes of a bar mitzvah boy

JL;DR SUMMARY Moshe Rosenthal's film "Tell Me Everything," showcased at the Sundance Film Festival, explores the intricate dynamics within a family amid the AIDS crisis through the eyes of Boaz, a soon-to-be bar mitzvah boy in the 1980s and 1990s. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IdentityFamily DynamicsBar MitzvahLgbtq+Aids CrisisMasculinityIsraeli FilmSundance1980s 1990sMoshe Rosenthal

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Sundance, Utah, United States
"Rosenthals film, in competition at Sundance, has its own merits and its own unwelcome glut of cliches."
Israel
"While today Israel is heralded as a gay mecca in the Middle East, the stigma the film hints at still exists with its own strain of toxic masculinity and machismo."
Turkey
"Charlotte Wells semi-autobiographical portrait of a daughter and her tortured father on vacation at a Turkish resort in the 1990s."

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