Four Seasons Lodge (2009)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 2
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Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0
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Fascinated by the group of aging Holocaust survivors who spend their summers together at the Four Seasons Lodge in the Catskill Mountains, filmmaker Andrew Jacobs documents their collective memories, close friendships, and rich traditions at a time when their favorite retreat hovers in an uncertain state of flux. Every year since 1979, this small group of German and Polish Jews has gathered at the Four Seasons to reminisce about their childhoods and find comfort in one another's company. Like
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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.
Top CriticThe best thing about Four Seasons Lodge is its subject.
[Director Andrew Jacob's] pitch-perfect film provides an affectionate look at a brave, disappearing subculture.
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.
What's most beautiful of all is that this document ensures that these people will indeed live on forever. Take that, Nazis!
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.
One of the most emotionally-evocative documentaries ever about Holocaust survivors.
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.
Supremely moving tale about holocaust survivors as well as the decline of the Borscht Belt.
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.
A tender, heartfelt documentary that's ultimately underwhelming and incomplete because it fails to pack a much-needed intellectual punch.
A quietly revealing tribute to unique octogenarians: Holocaust survivors who have summered together for 25 years and the cinema vérité pioneer Albert Maysles.
there is no narrative flow or drive to the film
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.
One of the most emotionally-evocative documentaries ever made about Holocaust survivors.
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.
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