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Streisand plays a Jewish woman who needs to go to the boys-only school, so she drags up and does so; romantic complications predictably ensue, with both sexes. This should have been the ultimate feminist and female-to-male movie: intelligent woman is prevented by society's rules from attaining her potential, but she wins through despite all that.
Instead it was played as a sort of self-indulgent Disney musical (Streisand sings a lot of narrative), and there's no real attempt to portray what life was like then, or the influence of the religious hierarchy. And Streisand uses late 20th century cosmetics and hair care products throughout, in both Yentl's roles.
The action takes place in "Eastern Europe", evidently assumed to be a single entity somewhere East of the Atlantic. Sample dialogue:
Yentl (in boy mode, talking to girl): "Are you too warm? Shall I open a window?"
Girl: "No ... well, if you like; you're the man".
In the picture, Yentl is at the tailor's shop. There is a lot of silly dialogue about taking the trousers off, and being tight in the crutch, etc etc. An opportunity to make a serious film badly missed.
HF October 2001
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