Brother Born Again

Brother Born Again is a documentary by a late thirties lesbian Jewish woman.  Her younger brother, about 10 years ago, ran away from their family and its complicated New-York/Jewish/intellectual drama, and joined a fundamentalist Christian community in remote Alaska.  Although they've been estranged for a long time, she sets off to visit him, and try to, if not reconcile things, at least try to understand.  Because my own younger brother escaped our family to move to Europe (although we're not exactly estranged, we're not tight the way we used to be), the movie was particularly touching for me.  It's a sweet, fair look at a man who just couldn't handle the world, and fell into religion as a crutch.  B+