Jason Solomons 

Holy Rollers – review

Jesse Eisenberg excels as the central character in this tale of a nervous Hasidic Jew turned international ecstasy smuggler, writes Jason Solomons
  
  

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Jesse Eisenberg in Holy Rollers: 'neurotic intensity'. Photograph: xxx

Although it sounds like the start of an old Jewish joke – did you hear the one about the rabbi and the drug dealer? – Holy Rollers is based on a true story. A young Hasidic Jew in 1990s Brooklyn, Jesse Eisenberg uses the social network of the orthodox community to smuggle ecstasy pills from Holland. Who's going to frisk a frummer? It's a surprisingly cool little film, not funny at all but rather seriously torn between the secular and the sacred, a conflict Eisenberg expresses with a neurotic intensity.

 

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