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He dials this back in "Disobedience." There are no villains.

In "A Fantastic Woman," a trans woman fought to be allowed to grieve for her dead lover, and Lelio's focus on the cruelty of the surrounding world pushed the film into a nightmare-scape. This is Lelio's third film in a row about women (the first being 2013's "Gloria"), and he is deeply empathetic to the ways in which repressive societies put women in all kinds of impossible double- and triple-binds. Ronit's arrival throws everything into confusion. He is set to step into Rav Krushka's sizable shoes. She is a teacher in a girls school and enjoys her work. "Exposition" wouldn't be spoken out loud in this crowd since everyone knows everything about everyone else.

Exposition is always awkward, so Lelio doesn't bother with it at all. Lelio's approach helps us feel we are thrust into the middle of a very tight-knit community, with a long shared history. This is playing with fire, since it soon becomes clear that Esti and Ronit had an adolescent romance, well-known to the community at the time. Dovid and Esti invite Ronit to stay with them during her time in London. She forgets herself and almost hugs him in a friendly greeting, and then laughs when he recoils from her touch. It takes some time before you figure out who Dovid is to Ronit, although from their behavior you can tell they once were close. The eloquence of the performances is key to the material succeeding, since Lelio does not introduce the characters, and their connections, in a straightforward way. The shock on Weisz's face is eloquent, although we don't know the backstory yet.

There's an awkward moment in the kitchen when she makes the connection. She's been gone so long she had no idea that Dovid ( Alessandro Nivola), taken in by her father as a protégé at 13, and Esti, her childhood friend ( Rachel McAdams) have gotten married. The obituary for her father states that "sadly" he had no children. She is rebelliously secular, with long free hair, cigarettes, short leather skirts. When she returns home, she walks into the unchanged world of her childhood, looked at by relatives and former friends with curiosity and concern. His daughter Ronit ( Rachel Weisz), a New York-based photographer, left years ago.

The rabbi who dropped dead was Rav Krushka ( Anton Lesser), an important figure in the London Orthodox Jewish community.