![]() ![]() ![]() Jonathan arrives in Odessa and is greeted by his eager, hip-hop loving, possibly closeted-gay tour guide Alex (Gogo Bordello’s Eugene Hutz), who narrates the story, pronounces Jonathan’s name “Jonfen,” and loves describing things as “premium.” Alex’s family runs a tour guide business that specializes in helping American Jews visit significant sites from their pre-WWII ancestry. It certainly has some of that in it, especially early on. ![]() The film, which tells the story of a fictional version of Foer, played by Elijah Wood, who travels to Ukraine on a journey to find a woman who saved his grandfather’s life during the Holocaust, does give the appearance of Wes Anderson if his work was just a bit more Jewish. Liev Schrieber’s 2005 adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s semi-autobiographical novel “Everything is Illuminated” is deceptive in its outward quirkiness, which may have accounted for its lack of box-office success. ![]()
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