Actor Liev Schreiber makes an impressive directorial debut with this 'roadtrip in the Ukraine' film, Everything Is Illuminated, based off of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel of the same name.
Elijah Wood suits the role of the American-Jewish man who travels to the Urkaine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather's life during the Nazi invasion. However, it's Gypsy punk-band, Gogol Bordello's frontman, Eugene Hütz that steals the show as a flamboyant tour guide who almost has a grasp on the English language.
There's nothing amazing or mind-blowing in this film but it's the emotional journey that counts here. It's laugh out loud funny in several moments, completely heartbreaking in others and very thoughtful throughout. It's a film I've throughly enjoyed with each revisit and probably will many more times.
4 "Seeing Eye Bitches" out of 5
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3 actors playing their character and their grandparents out of 5
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