Rachel Weisz is one of those rare actors who is able to do both big-budget blockbusters and art-house films. After making a name for herself in the ‘Mummy‘ franchise alongside Brendan Fraser, she has most recently gotten audiences’ attention with her amazing performance in “The Lobster.” And let’s not forget that she picked up an Oscar for her turn in “The Constant Gardener.” With her next film, “Denial,” set to release soon, Weisz has lined up her next film.
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Variety is reporting that Weisz will produce and star in an adaptation of author Naomi Alderman’s “Disobedience.” The film tells the story of a woman who must return to the London Orthodox Jewish community she fled years prior after the death of her father, who was the preeminent rabbi. Here’s the book synopsis:
For Ronit Krushka, thirty-two and single, who lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Orthodox Judaism is a suffocating culture she fled long ago. When she learns that her estranged father, the preeminent rabbi of the London Orthodox Jewish community in which she was raised, has died, she must return home for the first time in years.
There, amid the traditional ebb and flow of the community, Ronit reminds herself of her dual mission: to mourn and to collect a single heirloom — her mother’s Shabbat candlesticks. But when Ronit reconnects with her complex and beloved cousin Dovid as well as with a forbidden childhood sweetheart, she becomes more than just a stranger in her old home — she becomes a threat.
Set at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, of personal desires and the demands of God, Disobedience is about the importance of moving on and what we lose when we do — and it is about the tendency toward disobedience that we all possess.
Chilean director Sebastián Lelio will helm “Disobedience,” and co-wrote the script alongside Rebecca Lenkiewicz.