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The Seattle Jewish Film Festival opens tonight at Cinerama with the movie The Flood, which Eli Sanders reviewed for this week's paper. We didn't have room to run his full review in the paper (stupid space restrictions), but now you can enjoy it online! An excerpt:

The biblical tale of Noah’s ark is often read as a story about the lifesaving rewards of being the only guy on earth who’s following the rules. The Flood, this year’s opener for the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, has a different—and darker, and more interesting—idea about how the story should be read. The film uses the ark-floating flood as an opportunity to explore the types of existences that create an intense and understandable desire for the whole fucking insane world to be washed away and restarted anew, this time with just the good-hearted humans (and plenty of cute animals).

Read more about The Flood, and some of the other films in the festival, here.

The Seattle Jewish Film Festival runs through March 25. Get a complete list of films and showtimes at www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org.