vdeva
07-20-2007, 09:32 AM
Has anyone out there seen the movie "Voyages" about 3 women whose lives are intertwined. They are part of the large community of Holocaust survivors scattered worldwide who have been separated by the horrors of the Nazi genocide. Here is a general description of the movie:
The film opens on a bus trip from Warsaw to Auschwitz as a 65-year-old French Holocaust survivor, now a resident of Israel, argues with her husband during a breakdown in the middle of nowhere. Then the film shifts to Paris, where a woman receives a phone call from a Lithuanian man claiming to be her long-lost father -- he isn't, but she lets him stay while they trace his real daughter's whereabouts, who's presumably living in Israel. The third portion unravels in Tel Aviv as an 85-year-old Russian woman, a recent arrival whose Yiddish language is hopelessly out of place, searches its busy streets for a distant cousin.
I wonder if you can help me understand the ending of the film "Voyages". I was just reading a review of the film, which I just saw a couple nights ago. In one review I read, it is said that all is revealed in the last 15 seconds. I thought perhaps someone would help me understand what I seem to have missed. When Riwka and Vera are talking after meeting on the bus in Tel Aviv, what happens that pulls the three lives together.
I have sent the movie back to Netflix and I could just order it again but maybe I can find my answer at WACCO? This is a really interesting movie if you like slow, beautifully photographed films focused on women.
Thanks, Vicki
The film opens on a bus trip from Warsaw to Auschwitz as a 65-year-old French Holocaust survivor, now a resident of Israel, argues with her husband during a breakdown in the middle of nowhere. Then the film shifts to Paris, where a woman receives a phone call from a Lithuanian man claiming to be her long-lost father -- he isn't, but she lets him stay while they trace his real daughter's whereabouts, who's presumably living in Israel. The third portion unravels in Tel Aviv as an 85-year-old Russian woman, a recent arrival whose Yiddish language is hopelessly out of place, searches its busy streets for a distant cousin.
I wonder if you can help me understand the ending of the film "Voyages". I was just reading a review of the film, which I just saw a couple nights ago. In one review I read, it is said that all is revealed in the last 15 seconds. I thought perhaps someone would help me understand what I seem to have missed. When Riwka and Vera are talking after meeting on the bus in Tel Aviv, what happens that pulls the three lives together.
I have sent the movie back to Netflix and I could just order it again but maybe I can find my answer at WACCO? This is a really interesting movie if you like slow, beautifully photographed films focused on women.
Thanks, Vicki