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- 2001
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 51 m
- 2001
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 51 m
Summary Explores the stories of three Jewish women whose lives were forever altered by the Holocaust.
Directed By: Emmanuel Finkiel
Written By: Emmanuel Finkiel
- 2001
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 51 m
- 2001
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 51 m
Voyages
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Summary Explores the stories of three Jewish women whose lives were forever altered by the Holocaust.
Directed By: Emmanuel Finkiel
Written By: Emmanuel Finkiel
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
83
100% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Shooting with a respectful remove that captures an intimacy by sheer doggedness, Finkiel creates a rich atmosphere by simply looking, listening and peering past the surfaces.
This movie operates in the limbo between memory and oblivion that we recognize as daily life. It bears courageous and stringent witness to the impossibility of bearing witness.
Finkiel (a French director who apprenticed with Godard, Tavernier, and Kieslowski) plants clues throughout the film suggesting that the women might be long-lost relatives but declines to wrap things up neatly. The very uncertainty--and the fading possibility of an end to their search--is what makes the film so eerie and poignant.
His (Finkiel) ability to control economical dialogue with subtle but unusually powerful images -- haunted faces peering out from behind foggy bus windows; train tracks that once carried other passengers to a death camp -- lend this quiet, unforgettable film an uncanny power.
Although Voyages is mapped with anguish and fear, director Emmanuel Finkiel's characters are survivors, and he never lets us forget it.
Finkiel's filmmaking is so careful and cautious that it becomes plodding at times. The theme is powerful, though, and the movie's sincerity overrides its heavy-handed tendencies.
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Production Company
Les Films du Poisson,
Le Studio Canal+,
Arte France Cinéma,
Heritage Films,
Paradise Films,
FCC,
YMC Productions,
Studio Images 5,
Eurimages,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Canal+ Polska,
Fondation Beaumarchais,
Fondation Hachette,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union,
Nathan Lerner Foundation,
Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)
Release Date Jan 26, 2001
Duration 1 h 51 m
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Awards
César Awards, France
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Uruguay International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
