Disobedience

About Disobedience

New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend.

Disobedience (2018) is a romance film directed by Sebastián Lelio. Its themes are lesbian, forbidden love, childhood friends, and return to hometown.

Rachel Weisz appears as Ronit Krushka, Rachel McAdams as Esti Kuperman, Alessandro Nivola as Dovid Kuperman, and Allan Corduner as Moshe Hartog. It runs 114 minutes and was released in April 2018.

The screenplay is by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Sebastián Lelio. Production companies include Braven Films and Element Pictures. In the United States it streams on Cinemax Amazon Channel and Cinemax Apple TV channel.

Water Lilies, My Days of Mercy, and Blue Is the Warmest Color make useful companions to Disobedience, all filed under LGBT. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 1,306 votes and it carries a R rating.