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Four Seasons Lodge (2009)

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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 0

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For decades, a group of Holocaust survivors has met every summer at a Catskills bungalow colony, despite their dwindling numbers. In what may be there last gathering together, the lodgers cook, flirt, argue, dance and share stories of loss and survival, while the fate of their community remains uncertain.

Unrated, 1 hr. 37 min.

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All Critics (16) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)

Perhaps the most remarkable thing this unexpectedly warm and affirmative film shows us about the survivors is that, far from blocking out their past, they've managed to enjoy these unexpected years despite continually living with their personal horrors.

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
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The best thing about Four Seasons Lodge is its subject.

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
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[Director Andrew Jacob's] pitch-perfect film provides an affectionate look at a brave, disappearing subculture.

November 13, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
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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.

November 13, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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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.

November 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
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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.

November 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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One of the most emotionally-evocative documentaries ever about Holocaust survivors.

August 11, 2010 Full Review Source: Sly Fox | Comment
Sly Fox

A poignant portrait of a Jewish summer community in the Catskills (one of a few where once there'd been hundreds) peopled almost entirely by elderly concentration-camp survivors.

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Boston Phoenix

Supremely moving tale about holocaust survivors as well as the decline of the Borscht Belt.

November 16, 2009 Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | Comment
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The 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.

November 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

A tender, heartfelt documentary that's ultimately underwhelming and incomplete because it fails to pack a much-needed intellectual punch.

November 11, 2009 Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | Comment
NYC Movie Guru

A quietly revealing tribute to unique octogenarians: Holocaust survivors who have summered together for 25 years and the cinema vérité pioneer Albert Maysles.

November 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | Comment
Film-Forward.com

What's most beautiful of all is that this document ensures that these people will indeed live on forever. Take that, Nazis!

November 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

there is no narrative flow or drive to the film

November 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

Four Seasons Lodge will likely be labeled a Holocaust documentary, but it's more accurately a work of sociologically-minded film poetry akin to Michael Apted's ongoing Up series.

November 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

One of the most emotionally-evocative documentaries ever made about Holocaust survivors.

November 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Sly Fox | Comment
Sly Fox

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.

October 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Compuserve | Comment
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When the second-rate band rips into "I Will Survive" at the end of "Four Seasons Lodge", the first instinct is to roll one's eyes; what a hackneyed tune! "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," Noel Coward commented, and as the lyrics unfold ("Did you think I'd crumble/did you think I'd lay down and die/Oh no not

March 1, 2010
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November 13, 2009
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