The review in '' The Wall Street Journal '' : '' Kadosh '' - " the title means " sacred " - addresses universal themes . Among them are the demands of ultra-orthodox religion , which confines as it sustains , and the suffering of men and women whose religion comes before love , but whose culture lacks a vocabulary for expressing personal pain . Yet Kadosh is also foreign in the extreme , an austere and shocking portrait of daily life in Mea Shearim , the Hasidic Jewish quarter of Jerusalem . ( ... ) Kadosh is a horror story , or rather two horror stories intertwined , about women tyrannised by men in the name of religious belief . " ( The Wall Street Journal , 17 March 2000 ) " Kadosh " was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival
1999 Cannes Film Festival
1999 Cannes Film Festival
Amos Gitai