Review of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014) by David Lewis for San Francisco Chronicle — 26 Feb 2015

As the title suggests, she might as well be on trial for her life. That’s the absurdist but eerily true premise behind this provocative Israeli feature film, which takes us to the world of the Jewish religious courts, a place where only rabbis can decree a divorce — and where husbands wield stupefying power.