Archive for April 1st, 2006

Everything is Illuminated (2005)

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

I’m not a writer. I mean, I write, but I’m more of a collector, really.

Liev Schreiber exhibits a masterful control of tone and character in this quirky film that shifts seamlessly from quirky ethnic slapstick to something more transcendently elegiac. Everything is Illuminated also holds its secrets close until the end without cheating the audience at all.

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