Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by rico (A) on December 24, 2006 at 13:03:44

Liev Schreiber wrote and directed this film adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. In it, an obsessive young Jewish American embarks upon what he calls a "rigid search" to find the woman who saved his grandfather in Nazi occupied Ukraine during World War II.
He enlists "Odessa Heritage Tours", which consists of a young Borat- like man who speaks broken and hilarious English, his granfather who claims to be blind (of course he's the driver), and the grandfather's crazy dog, Sammy Davis Jr. Jr. With only a single photgraph to go on, the four travel in an old car into the heart of the Ukraine, meeting various characters along the way and seeing what that post-Soviet country has become or is becoming. Extremely funny at times yet moving at the end. The past illuminates everthing.