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[Short Reviews]

BROTHER BORN AGAIN

Julia Pimsleur is a bisexual Jewish New Yorker whose older brother left 10 years ago to join a Christian commune in Alaska. Their beliefs and lifestyles are antipathetic, but Pimsleur felt the need to restore the family tie and so decided to pay her brother a visit. Besides, it was a good idea for a movie, especially since the dialogue and the exploration that follow are neither self-indulgent nor judgmental but honest and insightful, as modest and straightforward as the film itself. Brother covers a lot of issues — the need for belief, the limits of tolerance and righteousness, and, of, course, the inescapability of family. And the people are likable; my favorite is the hard-headed great aunt who sums up born-again fundamentalism: " To me it sounds like a lot of crap. " Some things only your family can tell you.

By Peter Keough

Issue Date: May 31- June 7, 2001





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