Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 105m
Director: Liev Schreiber
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Laryssa Lauret
Synopsis:
An expatriate Ukrainian Jew with a mania for collecting anything related to his family's past embarks on a pilgrimage to find the village where his grandparents were saved from the Nazis, and if possible the persons responsible. Little does he know that his guides, cynical entrepreneurs from Odessa, have a rendez-vous with their own form of epiphany.
Review:
A formally striking debut, centred around a subject now familiar. The treatment is fresh, and Wood's impassive protagonist is complemented by the two Russian characters' expansive displays of East European chutzpah. There is a real feeling for the journeying aspect of the 'very rigid search', and the eccentricity is so much of a focus of enjoyment that it comes as a surprise when we are reminded of the truth behind the past.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 105m
Director: Liev Schreiber
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Laryssa Lauret
Synopsis:
An expatriate Ukrainian Jew with a mania for collecting anything related to his family's past embarks on a pilgrimage to find the village where his grandparents were saved from the Nazis, and if possible the persons responsible. Little does he know that his guides, cynical entrepreneurs from Odessa, have a rendez-vous with their own form of epiphany.
Review:
A formally striking debut, centred around a subject now familiar. The treatment is fresh, and Wood's impassive protagonist is complemented by the two Russian characters' expansive displays of East European chutzpah. There is a real feeling for the journeying aspect of the 'very rigid search', and the eccentricity is so much of a focus of enjoyment that it comes as a surprise when we are reminded of the truth behind the past.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor 105m
Director: Liev Schreiber
Cast: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Laryssa Lauret
Synopsis:
An expatriate Ukrainian Jew with a mania for collecting anything related to his family's past embarks on a pilgrimage to find the village where his grandparents were saved from the Nazis, and if possible the persons responsible. Little does he know that his guides, cynical entrepreneurs from Odessa, have a rendez-vous with their own form of epiphany.
Review:
A formally striking debut, centred around a subject now familiar. The treatment is fresh, and Wood's impassive protagonist is complemented by the two Russian characters' expansive displays of East European chutzpah. There is a real feeling for the journeying aspect of the 'very rigid search', and the eccentricity is so much of a focus of enjoyment that it comes as a surprise when we are reminded of the truth behind the past.