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You don't have to find the Yiddish language inherently amusing to get something out of "Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish"--which is currently playing at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center--but it helps. A linguistic oddity with oodles of charm, it cleverly satirizes the paradoxical sense of pride and self-loathing that has come to define the modern America Jew. Eve Annenberg's scrappy feature has plenty of appeal if you're willing to go with it. The story follows a middle-aged graduate student attempting to produce the ludicrously high concept production of the title. She hires a couple…...

You don't have to find the Yiddish language inherently amusing to get something out of "Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish" -- which is currently playing at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center -- but it helps. A linguistic oddity with oodles of charm, it cleverly satirizes the paradoxical sense of pride and self-loathing that has come to define the modern America Jew. Eve Annenberg's scrappy feature has plenty of appeal if you're willing to go with it.

Nancy Fishman Film Releasing said it has picked up Eve Annenberg's "Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish," coming to the Film Society of Lincoln Center this Friday, July 8, after its premiere there during the 2011 New York Jewish Film Festival. “I was completely charmed by the timelessness and originality of "Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish," said Nancy Fishman. “I’m thrilled to be working with Eve Annenberg, a director with a ...