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 is a Jewish film to its very core. It’s written and directed by, stars, and is about Jews and explores many different angles to the religion and how it can define a person.

“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 ...

From left: Carol Kane, Jason Schwartzman, Madeline Weinstein, Diane Lanyi, Dolly de Leon, and Robert Smigel in "Between the Temples." (Courtesy Sean Price Williams/Pictures Classics) The most ...

Nathan Silver’s ninth feature film, “Between the Temples,” continues his work as someone who is unafraid of emotional and narrative complexity. By A.J. Goldmann Early on in Nathan Silver’s ...