Friday, November 28, 2014 Amatro and Tiferet/Marianne watch WANDERING MUSE from Tamás Wormser at Cinéma du Parc Our small Hungarian community in Montreal knows Tamas quite well; he invites most of us to his annual birthday parties at Artesian Films. For this reason it was an honour to attend the screening of his last film entitled as The Wandering Muse. Tamas intro to the film was short and sweet and in my own busy cancer-stricken life I certainly appreciated this shortness and sweetness. He said that it took him about 7 and a half years to make this film to find out what Jewishness means to him. He made the film and he was still left with the question. Amatro and I both loved the film and we were emotionally involved from the beginning right to the end. The film explores the musical landscape of all currently functional Jewish diasporas from Montreal through Budapest to Black Africa (yes, there is a such a thing as black Jews!). Moreover, this was NOT A RELIGIOUS landscape at all; it was a more spiritual landscape, the world of music. I have never been keen on - up until my 50th birthday - being reminded of my own Jewish bloodline. It is not that I do not like my Jewish born Mother; it is mostly how I interpreted Judaism. I had the same QUESTION as Tamas did - what this Jewishness means to me? While I never found a definite answer - and neither did TAMAS WORMSER, I enjoyed the visual display of the movie WANDERING MUSE as it reinforced something that I always liked about Jewish culture and The Jewish Soul. This something is its ongoing UNIVERSALITY in the face of time. And what on Earth expresses the soul better than dances and music; the Sound. Tamas brought us through ages, countries and languages to show just that - The Jewish Universal Soul through the Sound of Music. Amatro and I were both enchanted and actively participating in the screening. We have not discussed the movie after the film ended, as it was a 30 minutes silencein our souls and mind; but we both felt- moved- and we both are sceptical and science freaks. So people - for your daily enchantment - Jew or Atheist or Scientist - do see this film. Your UNIVERSAL SOUL - what a tautology - will kiss you and thank you for that! Having issued from an interfaith Catholic-Jewish marriage (my Mother converted to save my Father from circumcision at the age of 33!), I was raised in both faith, which means that I am a baptised Catholic and a Torah and Kabbalah trained Jew and at the same time. I know it sounds funny and controversial, but it is my own parents who are responsible for all this humour and controversy.
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