It’s decision time: should Bobbi Jene stay in Tel Aviv or part company with the dance troupe that’s been her professional home for a third of her life? If only the 30-year-old, Iowa-born star of the Batsheva dance group had her career as neatly in order as her romantic life! (Bobbi’s in post-bop with a much-older dance instructor and in pre-bop with a dancer ten years her junior.) Mom is a strict Catholic who questions many of her daughter’s more provocative decisions — most notably, her child’s willingness to achieve orgasm before a live audience while rubbing up against a bag of cement — but you wouldn’t know it from watching this compromising documentary. On the surface, everything seems peachy; but just off camera and out of mic range, there are screams of “look at me!” sucking the viewer into a vat of vacuity that’s frighteningly close to cinema’s answer to the vanity press. Directed by Elvira Lind. (2017) — Scott Marks
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