Disobedience: Rachels Weisz and McAdams bring a forbidden love back to life
A woman’s prodigal return to the Orthodox Jewish community of her youth rekindles more than just old friendships
January 2019
My Oscar goes to... Our film critics reveal their personal shortlists
Ahead of the official Academy nominations, the Observer’s critics pick their own winners
December 2018
Disobedience review – textbook forbidden love with Rachel Weisz and McAdams
Strong performances from Weisz and McAdams lift Sebastián Lelio’s relentlessly drab adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel set in Orthodox Jewish north London
November 2018
Coming out: Naomi Alderman on leaving Orthodox Judaism behind
Sapphic sensation: the rise of the lesbian story on and off screen
August 2018
'Oral sex – and no scissoring!' How the lesbian gaze changed cinema
Shot by straight male directors, lesbian sex scenes are all too often pornographic fantasy. But now film-makers are portraying a more realistic experience
September 2017
Disobedience review – Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams impress in powerful love story
The English language debut from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio is a rich and rewarding drama about a woman returning home to the Orthodox Jewish community of north London
June 2017
Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death'
In her most successful decade, the actor talks family, ‘surrealist’ politics and the perils of marrying James Bond
October 2016
Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams to star in adaptation of Disobedience
Alderman’s novel charts the love affair between a woman from an Orthodox Jewish background and the wife of her cousin
