In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Barbra Streisand Mandy Patinkin Amy Irving Nehemiah Persoff Steven Hill Allan Corduner Ruth Goring David de Keyser Bernard Spear Doreen Mantle Lynda Baron Jack Lynn Anna Tzelniker Miriam Margolyes Mary Henry Robbie Barnett Ian Sears Frank Baker Anthony Dean Rubeš Renata Buser Kerry Shale Danny Brainin Gary Brown Jonathan Tafler Peter Whitman Teddy Kempner Norma Atallah Mark English Milena Glogarová Show All…
杨朵儿, Γεντλ, Jentl, 燕特尔, ינטל, 楊朵, 옌틀, Йентл, Jentł
This movie is so unwell. Barbara is 40 year old woman playing a small girl playing a small boy in an internal-thought musical in which no one is allowed to sing but her, including famously bad singers Amy Irving and Mandy Patinkin at apex hotness.
All the songs are interior monologues from Yentl where something happens and she'll recap it in her thoughts immediately. Here's how they all start:
[Yentl realizes something]
YENTL: 🎶I just realized somethiiiiiiing🎶
Incredible stuff, just peak hubris from from an out control icon. I absolutely loved it, four stars!
Mulan for Jews
What if... we kissed in the Yeshiva... while reading the Talmud and wearing our prayer shawls? Ha ha, jk... Unless?
intellectual she’s the man
1983 mandy patinkin is the FINEST man i have ever seen in my entire life
arguing talmud with your bro and then insisting he share a bed with you, locking eyes with your bro at yeshiva and throwing your arm around him at absolutely every opportunity, wrestling him to the ground as you argue talmud and—
that scene where yentl was staring at avigdor and avigdor was staring at hadass and hadass was staring at yentl...all while babs was in the background singing about being in love with the wrong person...and all three of them were sipping tea...yeah imma need a while to recover from that one
you know the vibes and frankly so do i. iconic
very eager for lady gaga to reach the point in her career where she ends up making whatever the italian version of this is
Gentle AND transportive AND horny
For most of my life my entire reference point to Yentl is that it's the movie Homer watches in "Selma's Choice" when he's really sick and delirious, which is of course the only explanation for why he enjoys it. Nope! Turns out the movie is just actually really good!
i'd hold her hand when she was directing and say, 'you're the cutest guy on the set.' i felt that way even in the scene where i kiss her. i was pretty excited, i mean, i'm the first female to have a screen kiss with barbra streisand! she refused to rehearse, but after the first take she said, 'it's not so bad. it's like kissing an arm.' i was a little insulted, because i believed so much that she was a boy that i'd sort of fallen in love with her.
— amy irving on kissing barbra streisand, 1983