A Film With Music

So begins this beautifully realised fable of love and sacrifice that not only stars, but was produced, directed and co-written (with Jack Rosenthal), by Barbra Striesand.

In Eastern Europe, 1904, Yentl (Striesand), a smart, spirited and independent young woman is forced to masquerade as a boy in order to pursue her love of knowledge and discovers a love of an entirely different sort.

Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving (in an Academy Award nominated performance), co-star in this wonderfully delicate and lyrical film that is both a courageous and heartening achievement and a triumph