David Watkin

In a time when the world of study belonged only to men, there lived a girl called Yentl... Directed by and starring screen legend Barbra Streisand, a young woman takes her late brother's name and enters a Jewish religious school in early 20th century Poland. There, she masquerades as a boy in order to pursue her thirst for knowledge and befriends fellow student Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin) in this "Funny, delicate, and intense" (The New Yorker) musical...