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Touching film about one young Jewish man's search for answers |
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| Touching film about one young Jewish man's search for answers | ||
| By Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid
- SGN A&E Writer
Everything is Illuminated Directed by Live Schreiber. Starring: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Laryssa Laurette. Opens: September 23rd. Uptown Cinemas The best thing, among many things about 'Everything is Illuminated', the new film directed by actor Live Schreiber, is that even though part of it is about the Holocaust, the film isn't all heaviness. And even though I bawled my eyes out at the end of the film, the first part is actually quite funny and even magical. The story, based on a true story by Safran Foer (who plays a cameo role in the film-watch for the leaf blower), tells of the journey to the Ukraine by a young Jewish man (Elijah Wood), who seeks the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis during WWII. But the journey will yield much more than he, or the tour guides ( Eugene Hutz and Boris Leskin) ever expect to find, as they get closer to finding who the mysterious woman in a battered photo left to him by his grandfather, is. What is most wonderful, however, about this film, is the nuances. The way cultures clash between the young Jewish man from the city and his tour guides, who have lived their entire lives in the Ukraine, and for whom the eccentricities of this young man are the source of many (at first), mean jokes. And how the film weaves in subtle commentaries on modern and old Ukraine and Russia, is absolutely delightful to watch evolve. In short, 'Everything is Illuminated' is one of the year's best films and definitely one of the most heartbreakingly beautiful films about redemption and forgiveness after the Holocaust that I've ever seen. Just know, it will make you cry, even as it will make you laugh out loud. |
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