CHARLATAN (Agnieszka Holland 2020)

The venerable Czech director has been busy in recent years; this is her third feature following SPOOR and MR. JONES. What she is doing with this highly embroidered portrait of a real-life natural herbal medecine healer who diagnosed patients by looking at flasks of their urine - with a gay subplot - is anybody's guess, but it's watchable and handsomely photographed.

Showing in the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival July 22-August 1, 2021 and available online.