‘Between the Temples’ Review: Jason Schwartzman Gives Carol Kane a Belated Bat Mitzvah in a Winningly Off-Kilter Comedy

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Guy Lodge Film Critic There’s a very young, very online contingent of Generation Z that propagates repeated cycles of so-called “age gap discourse”: heated, often condemnatory debate over the rights or wrongs of people dating, or merely socializing, outside their immediate age group.

The discussion often takes quaintly prudish forms, permitting no adult age at which such differences cease to matter, but if it circulates most heatedly among the young, it’s been handed down to them via age-old social rules and biases — ones to which Nathan Silver‘s delightful “Between the Temples” gives a cheerfully flippant middle finger.

Collapsing divides between old age, middle age and adolescence into a universally relatable paean to doing whatever the hell feels right for you in your own weird situation, this scruffy shoestring indie won’t be seen by the internet’s most hawkish age-gap monitors, though it has much to gently teach them.

Premiering in the U.S. Dramatic competition at Sundance, “Between the Temples” follows squarely in the tradition of Silver’s eight previous microbudget features, from its candid, on-the-fly 16mm aesthetic down to signature details like a cameo for the director’s mother Cindy.