Supremely moving tale about holocaust survivors as well as the decline of the Borscht Belt.
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11/16/09
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Four Seasons Lodge (2009)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:10
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Nov 11, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: New York Times journalist Andrew Jacobs directs this documentary about a summer colony of Holocaust survivors. Partially shot by legendary documentarian Albert Maysles, FOUR SEASONS LODGE looks at... [More]
Director: Andrew Jacobs
Reviews for Four Seasons Lodge
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[Director Andrew Jacob's] pitch-perfect film provides an affectionate look at a brave, disappearing subculture.
11/13/09
Top CriticThe collective’s flame burns bright and disrupts the darkness of a time that too many would soon rather forget. Luckily, we still care to remember.
11/13/09
The lyrically complicating hand of Mr. Maysles, who shot the film with several collaborators, is everywhere apparent in the way the camera picks a path around coherence, refusing narrative in favor of the thick detail of life unfolding.
11/13/09
Top CriticA tender, heartfelt documentary that's ultimately underwhelming and incomplete because it fails to pack a much-needed intellectual punch.
11/11/09
A quietly revealing tribute to unique octogenarians%u2014Holocaust survivors who have summered together for 25 years and the cinema vérité pioneer Albert Maysles.
11/11/09
What’s most beautiful of all is that this document ensures that these people will indeed live on forever. Take that, Nazis!
11/11/09
What's surprising about a documentary with such an obvious hook is its unforced but trenchant look at the crisis of faith dividing a small group of mostly Polish Jews who suffered through one of the most godless blights on human history.
11/10/09
Top Criticthere is no narrative flow or drive to the film
11/10/09
The pic serenely unfolds at the slow and steady pace of its indomitable subjects, ultimately rewarding viewers' patience as individual personalities and stories emerge amid the threatened sale of the Catskills colony.
11/10/09
Top CriticOne of the most emotionally-evocative documentaries ever made about Holocaust survivors.
11/08/09
A joyous albeit at times melancholy look at Holocaust survivors who meet each summer at a mountain resort to kvell, kvetch and prove that living well and long is the best revenge against Hitler.
10/20/09
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