Enemies: A Love Story

The acting was nice, the story good... But I am just wondering, why those people are speaking to each other with an Italian ACCENT all the time? I mean, they are Polish! "Herman Broder" is a guy, who escape from... Full review

After reading the novel this film was based on, I thought: "No way! There is absolutely no way they can portray these raw emotions on film!" But that's exactly what the amazing actors do! The three women are as different... Full review

I once read about how Paul Mazursky's career as a director has gravitated between very well done ("Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice", "Moscow on the Hudson") and what-was-he-thinking?! ("Scenes from a Mall", "The Flying Pickle"). Well, I can... Full review

I bought this movie (DVD release) after looking for other films by Paul Mazursky after being enchanted by An Unmarried Woman (and finding out there's reportedly a DVD release for that on January 10th) and after reading xavrush89's comments.I didn't... Full review

When comedian Alan King passed away last year, I thought of his sweet performance in this should-be classic. One would not expect comedy to come from a story about Holocaust survivors, but this film takes the quirks of human behavior... Full review

Singer is a downer (except for the cinematically changed ending of Yentl), and this extremely well-performed and well-directed sado-masochistic tale is no exception. This film truly makes you feel its characters' abundant and excruciating pains. The Holocaust was Hell, and... Full review

It's one of those stories that may be better in print or would have more impact on the stage, however this works suprisingly well on film. The superb acting allows it to be both effective as a drama and comedy.For... Full review

a hellish tale about a modern jobe from Bashevis Zinger's Novel. Herman Broder(Ron Silver), a holocaust surviver, lives in the 1940's New York with the polish peasant that hid hom during the war, has an affair with Mash (Lena Olin)... Full review

Other movies might make this situation the butt of light humor or farce, but in "Enemies, a Love Story" there's a lot more going on. And by and large Mazursky's approach, which is by turns comic and tragic, but never to cheap effect, chronicles the events at hand thoughtfully. ... Full Review

This is the magical effect that Mazursky manages to create in this worldly, sensuous, wholly remarkable film. In "Enemies," the story he tells is richly eccentric, jubilant and deeply skeptical all at once. Silver is perfect for Herman. ... Full Review

If Mazursky and company give "Enemies" its lightly pleasing surface, actor Ron Silver provides a desperate, harried vitality underneath. Certainly, Mazursky provides flashes of this: Silver experiences vivid flashbacks from his refugee past and Anjelica Huston has an appropriately ashen, morbid quality as the wife returned from the dead. ... Full Review

This is Mazursky's best film yet and a vivid testament of life, and of hope for those tough enough to keep on living.....which she explodes in one overwhelming scene -.... ... Full Review

In Dan Katzir's incomplete documentary, the last remaining survivors of New York's once-thriving Yiddish-speaking theatre scene are short-tempered, bossy and deaf. Helmed by Holocaust escapee Zypora Spaisman, a slender octogenarian who deservedly boasts that she outlasted Stalin and Hitler (referring... ... Full Article

The 15th annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, beginning tonight in La Jolla and continuing through Feb. 20 at movie theaters from Poway to La Jolla, showcases more than 40 documentaries and feature films. ... Full Article

This baffling, unintentionally sidesplitting horror show has opened just in time to qualify as the worst film of the year. Forty years ago, a countryside home in Spain was the site of a botched cult sacrifice of seven children during... ... Full Article

Based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel, Enemies, A Love Story is the tale of one Herman Broder; a man with no talent for marriage who ends up simultaneously married to three women. ... Full Article

"Enemies, a Love Story" is a movie about a man who ends up being married to three women at the same time, and it should not surprise you that he is not a happy man. He is not surprised. ... Full Article

Margaret Sophie Stein follows Howard as his carefully structured life spins out of control in the summer of 1949.At first, all is well. Despite his recurring dreams and memories of World War II, he lives on Coney Island convincingly... ... Full Article