Along with its unconventional love story between Schwartzman and Kane’s characters, Between the Temples is a reminder that it’s never too late to start a new life chapter. “I had [my mother ...

Carol Kane, from left, Jason Schwartzman, Madeline Weinstein, Diane Lanyi, Dolly de Leon, Robert Smigel in “Between the Temples.” (Sean Price Williams/Sony Pictures Classics) Carla is such a ...

Ben Gottlieb — the touchingly soulful hero of the soulful, delightfully tetchy “Between the Temples” — is a mess. He needs a haircut and a shave; he could do with better-fitting clothes.

“Between the Temples” follows the supposed resurrection of Ben, a cantor at a synagogue in upstate New York, whose wife died a year before. ... “Between the Temples” film poster.

In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but who finds a ...