What a great film! An independent film distributed by Warner Brothers. This is about a jewish American searching for the woman who saved his grandfather in the Ukraine in WWII. He travels to Odessa to hook up with "Heritage Tours," a travel company that specializes in tours for jews looking for lost relatives. The tour guides are an old, grouchy grandfather and his son, a guy obsessed with hip hop American culture, and who speaks broken english which is incredibly funny. Music is supplied by the ukrainian punk folk band, Gogol Bordello, a band that performs in the East End of Manhattan. The director saw a poster advertising the band, and the lead singer who fronts the band was pictured riding a minotaur that was naked from the waist up. The singer, Eugene Hutz, never acted before, but he is great in the film, and his group plays a number of folk songs. A funny but also ominous movie, because you know there is some mystery about the faded photography the American jew has to guide him in his search, and you suspect what he finds will be very tragic. A very, very beautiful film.
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