A Price Above Rubies

A Price Above Rubies is a 1998 film directed by Boaz Yakin, starring Rene Zellweger as a young woman who finds it difficult to conform to the restrictions imposed on her by her community. Reviews of the movie were mixed, though generally positive to Zellwegers performance. The title is a biblical quote. Proverbs 3110, in the King James translation, says Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.

Roger Ebert of Chicago SunTimes gave the movie three stars. While impressed by Zellwegers ferociously strong performance, he found the film did not teach us much about her society, and that the Hasidic community could have been treated in greater depth. Charles Taylor of Salon likewise appreciated Zellwegers performance, while also finding the cultural aspect treated too superficially. He described Sonias choices as clichs left over from the Liberated Woman movies ofyears ago, and the movie generally as that old middleoftheroad groaner about the good and bad in every race. Maria Garcia of Film Journal International was more positively inclined to the movie, and called it a beautifully wrought, skillfully rendered and brilliantly acted film.

Source: Wikipedia