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A lyrical poem to the lost places in our past and our heritage.
Odessa... Odessa!
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France, Israel · 2005
1h 36m
Director Michale Boganim
Starring Esther Hossid, Victoria Lesina, David Varer
Genre Documentary
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In this documentary, filmmaker Michale Boganim turns the camera on the vanishing Odessan Jewish community. The film’s main subjects are elderly expatriates, who fled Ukraine for New York and Israel. The Odessans tell stories of yearning and nostalgia for their homeland, from which Jewish culture has been largely scrubbed.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
This leisurely, transfixing movie is much more interested in nostalgic atmosphere than "educational" facts.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Odessa ... Odessa! could use a little more narrative substance to augment its haunting imagery but is ultimately a memorable portrait of cultural dislocation.
60
A modernist travelogue, at once impressionistic and precise.
63
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
The Brighton Beach crowds come off more like tourists, and the Odessans in Israel can't seem to decide which is their real homeland. And it's all very confusing.
40
Too pretty to dismiss, but too dull to recommend.
70
Hauntingly beautiful documentary.
50
New York Post by Russell Scott Smith
Sometimes beautiful to look at but ultimately too poetic for its own good.
50
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
As it observes these people, most of them well over 60, it conjures a melancholy definition of exile as a haunted state of mind.
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