Disobedience follows a woman as she returns to the community in London that shunned her years earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend. Once she is back, those passions reignite. Alessandro Nivola took to the stage at Deadline’s The Contenders New York recently to talk about his role as Dovid Kuperman, the…
Two of Bleecker Street’s awards season contenders, Disobedienceand Leave No Trace, show the wear and tear of humanity against its environment.
Sebastian Lelio’s Disobedience follows two lesbian lovers played by Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams who rekindle their romance from their teenage years in the face of the…
UPDATED at 10:55AM PT with more numbers and analysis. Magnolia and Participant's Sundance documentary RBG opened in 34 locations Friday with momentum behind it and it delivered a solid start.
Directed by Julie Cohen and Betsy West, the feature spotlighting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg grossed…
Disobediencethrives in what the studios used to turn out regularly in the golden era of so-called women’s pictures. It’s a straight-up melodrama disguised in the trappings of art house fare. But, as I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), two superb performances from a couple of Rachels, Rachel Weisz…
UPDATED at 11:10AM PT with more numbers and analysis. It’s hard out here for a specialty release in the long shadow of The Avengers, but a few limited openers managed to put up some impressive results this weekend.
Fresh from an Oscar win for Best Foreign Language Film for A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio scored…
Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio is wasting no time getting his next project into theaters — or at least distributor Bleecker Street isn't. Just over a month after his last film, A Fantastic Woman, took the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, his latest, Disobedience with Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz rolls into…
Coming off a Foreign Language Oscar win for A Fantastic Woman, writer/director Sebastián Lelio is already back on the festival circuit in support of his latest project, Disobedience.
Starring Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz and Alessandro Nivola and premiering in TIFF before moving on to other festivals, including…
The new trailer for the Bleecker Street drama Disobediencestarring Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, and Alessandro Nivola turns the dial up on estranged families, religious conflict, and forbidden love. The English-language debut from Sebastian Lelio had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last…
Bleecker Street has set its first five film releases for 2018. The lineup includes What They Had, Elizabeth Chomko's debut film, based on her Nicholl-winning screenplay, starring Hilary Swank and Michael Shannon, which will bow in theaters March 16. Also dated are two Jon Hamm-starring films, Beirut and Nostalgia, as…
Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Disobedience, Sebastián Lelio's English-language debut that stars Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams and Alessandro Nivola and just bowed at the Toronto Film Festival.
Based on Naomi Alderman’s book, the film follows a woman (Weisz) as she returns from New York after…
The Grey Goose Cocktails & Conversation Moderated by Deadline panel series at the Toronto Film Festival continues at 11:15 AM ET today with Disobedience, the movie adaptation of Naomi Alderman's novel about a woman who returns home to her orthodox Jewish community in London and rekindles a romance with the wife of her…
EXCLUSIVE:Alessandro Nivola is in talks to join the cast of Disobedience, the Sebastian Lelio-directed drama starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams and based on Naomi Alderman’s 2006 novel.
Nivola will play McAdams’ husband, an orthodox rabbi in North London whose marriage is threatened by his wife’s forbidden…
