Everything is Illuminated. A sweetly funny, and at times heartbreaking, movie about an American man’s search for his family’s past in Ukraine, and how it affects the locals helping him. I haven’t read the book by Jonathan Safran Foer, but after watching the movie, I probably will. Despite Elijah Wood’s face being all over the marketing materials, the real star of this movie is Eugene Hutz, who plays Wood’s Ukranian translator. Hutz also happens to be lead singer of a band called Gogol Bordello, one of the bands involved in the brief “gypsy-punk” movement of 2004, but other than supplying some music for the soundtrack, that doesn’t have much bearing on his stellar performance here. (And no, I’m not making that gypsy-punk stuff up. Google it.)
1.26.2007
Band of Gypsys
Everything is Illuminated. A sweetly funny, and at times heartbreaking, movie about an American man’s search for his family’s past in Ukraine, and how it affects the locals helping him. I haven’t read the book by Jonathan Safran Foer, but after watching the movie, I probably will. Despite Elijah Wood’s face being all over the marketing materials, the real star of this movie is Eugene Hutz, who plays Wood’s Ukranian translator. Hutz also happens to be lead singer of a band called Gogol Bordello, one of the bands involved in the brief “gypsy-punk” movement of 2004, but other than supplying some music for the soundtrack, that doesn’t have much bearing on his stellar performance here. (And no, I’m not making that gypsy-punk stuff up. Google it.)
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