22 August, 2012

Everything Illuminated

Mr. Joseph Battilega continues his project of introducing American idioms and difficult expressions to the Movie Cub members for the better comprehension of the film content.
Today’s Movie Club featured a «Everything is Illuminated» (2005).  
The movie is a based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer.  The author approaches terrible events of the Holocaust with a cool, jokey tone and ironic viewpoints.
The film depicts a situation when a young Jewish American travels to Ukraine, carrying a photograph of the woman believed in the legends of his family to have saved his granddad from the Nazis.

Director: Liev Schreiber.
Writers: Jonathan Safran Foer (novel), Liev Schreiber (screenplay)
Stars: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz and Boris Leskin
Number of participants 14 persons.

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