-
Wednesday, Jul 12, 2006
19:30
A Tickle in the Heart
Three elderly Brooklyn brothers reclaim their rightful crowns as “Kings of Klezmer Music” in this joyful documentary about memory, melody, and migration. Living large in the sun-kissed, pre-pressed world of a South Florida retirement community, the Epstein Brothers are the foremost living practitioners of klezmer, the high-velocity folk music that emerged from the villages of Eastern Europe and the slums of New York City. Following the ever-verbose brothers onstage and at home as they entertain retirees or cook matzo balls, bemusedly work a primarily non-Jewish audience in Berlin or look for their father's childhood home in Belarus, A Tickle in the Heart accents the infectious energy of not only klezmer, but the Epsteins themselves. “I play it just the way I would tell a story,” notes one brother about a particular melody; A Tickle in the Heart shows how such songs can tell the stories of a generation.
This page may by only partially complete.