Yentl (1/7) Movie CLIP - Where Is It Written? (1983) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Yentl (Barbra Streisand) laments the fact that, because she is a woman, she is not allowed to fulfill her ambitions of studying the Talmud.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Barbra Streisand's directorial debut, Yentl, is a musical adaptation of a story by the beloved Jewish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yentl (Streisand) is a young woman who wants nothing more than to study religious scripture. She is denied that possibility because she is a woman. She moves, passes herself off as a male named Anshel, and then begins her studies. She becomes close to fellow student Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin), eventually falling in love with him, although she can not reveal her true self as she would then be expelled. Avigdor is in love with Hadass (Amy Irving), but religious law forbids him from marrying her. Avigdor attempts to fix Anshel up with Hadass, leading to Hadass falling in love with Anshel. Yentl received four Academy Award nominations, including two Best Song nods.

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1983)
Cast: Nehemiah Persoff, Barbra Streisand
Director: Barbra Streisand
Producers: Larry DeWaay, Rusty Lemorande, Barbra Streisand
Screenwriters: Jack Rosenthal, Barbra Streisand, Isaac Bashevis Singer

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[lkeke]

Not enough people remember and love this movie. She did the whole thing, and this song in particular just reduces me to tears every single time I hear it!

[ANFeuerstahl]

This movie is like a good wine. It gets better and better with time.

[patricedecourcy]

When I think that she produced, co-wrote, directed that movie, she starred in it, she sang all those amazing songs... I'm speechless.

[jonnynguyen]

This song was the highlight of the film for me. The lyrics, the arrangement between traditional and operatic, the perfect mood between hope and hopelessness.

[virdinellhenry]

And what a waste to have a taste of things that can't be mine. Breaks my heart every time she says

[marcelashagash]

I can’t believe it took a pandemic time to me to finally watch “Yentl” love it!

[Tenor]

The men's chorus near the end is so breathtakingly beautiful. I so wish she included that in the released soundtrack

[erikbeermann]

One of my favorite movies. Very few people can act and sing like her

[atlasshruggedu]

YENTYL: One of the best movies of all time!!!

[alessandraheno]

A really good movie, the writing, the music, the story, the acting, the singing. All of it.

[wolfevie]

Yentl is one of my Utmost movie EVER when Barbara Streisand did this movie I fell in love with everything about it, I cried I smiled I felt bad I felt hurt and joy then cried at the end. This movie had moved me to tears and moved my heart to fall for this movie every single time. Thank you, Barbara Streisand, for your effortless work I love all the movies you have done over the years God Bless you in your talent you are a true woman with a heart that glows...

[bjbeezhyo]

My absolute favorite from the film/soundtrack. Especially love how they have the men's worship voices woven into the arrangement. Just great.

[mujerfenix]

This is the most beautiful movie and song in my life! I still cry when I hear it!

[lizard]

I just saw this film for the first time, a few days ago. Her prayer brought me to tears, as did much of this film. So incredibly moving. I will love this forever! Barbara IS BUTTA!! I'm VERKLEMT

[johncaputo]

For every adult child that felt the kind of true and deep bond that Yentl had with her father, like me this number is profoundly touching. The love between them is so brilliantly shown.

[tainarasvr]

There's not a morning I begin
Without a thousand questions
Running through my mind
That I don't try to find the reason
And the logic in the world
That God design
The reason why, a bird was given wings
If not to fly, and praise the sky
With every song it sings
What's right or wrong
Where I belong
Within the scheme of things
And why have eyes that see
And arms that reach
Unless you're meant to know there's
Something more
If not to hunger for the meaning of it all
Then tell me what a soul is for
Why have the wings unless you're meant to fly
And tell me please why have a mind
If not to question why
And tell me where
Where is it written what it is I'm meant to be
That I can't dare to have the chance to
Pick the fruit of every tree
Or have my share of every sweet imagined possibility
Just tell me where, where is it written, tell me where
If I were only meant to tend the nest
Then why does my imagination sail
Across the mountains and the seas
Beyond the make-believe of any fairy tale
Why have the thirst if not to drink the wine
And what a waste to have a taste
Of things that can't be mine
And tell me where
Where is it written what it is I'm meant to be
That I can't dare to see the meanings
In the mornings that I see
Or have my share of every sweet imagined possibility
Just tell me where, where is it written, tell me where
Or if it's written anywhere

[irene]

Es la mejor película que he visto. Me encanta cuando, fallecido su padre, ella se pregunta por su propia vida. Ese "si no soy yo, quién? y si no es ahora, cuándo?". Absolutamente maravillosa ❤

[reginelohmuller]

" Was immer du tun kannst, du kannst damit beginnen. Im Mut liegen Schöpferkraft, Stärke und Zauber. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beautiful Barbra Streisand, fantastic music, incredible plot and a wonderful message - "Yentl" is one of the best musicals - ever!

[Tara-gc]

She dedicated this work of art to her father...and fathers everywhere. I watched this movie with my Dad just a couple years before he died. This work of art comforts me so much when I sing the songs. Thank you, Barbara.

[michaelac]

One of my favorite Barbra Streisand songs!