ami feinstein

As a granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, who went back to Poland to see the remnants of the Holocaust, I so badly wanted to love this movie and relate to the characters, but I didn’t. I think this was supposed to be a comedy, but there were no laugh out loud moments. I kept waiting for the punch line but there wasn’t one. The characters didn’t seem to have any connection to their religion and heritage other than their connection to their grandmother and didn’t seem to reconnect to the past enough through this trip. In fact they seemed unchanged, returning to their old lives exactly after the trip. The relationship between the two cousins was interesting, but not enough to base the whole movie on, especially since it seems their lives go back to being separate and unchanged after the trip. The only message of the movie may have been resilience and moving forward after even the most traumatic life events such as living through the Holocaust, but the movie didn’t build on that enough. The idea of 2 Jewish cousins returning to connect to their roots was so promising, but overall the movie was lackluster and disappointing.