Everything Is Illuminated (film)

Everything Is Illuminated is a 2005 biographical drama film, written and directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Htz. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Safran Foer, and was the debut film of Liev Schreiber both as a director and as a screenwriter.

The score for Everything Is Illuminated features eight original tracks composed by Paul Cantelon, along with songs by Russian ska punk band Leningrad, Arkady Severny, Cskolom, Tin Hat Trio, and Gogol Bordello, whose lead singer plays Alex. The band members of Gogol Bordello play the band in the train station where the character Alex has come to meet his US client, Jonathan Foer. DeVotchKas single How It Ends is featured in the trailer, but not in the official soundtrack.American Chronicle recounted the film as one of the rare films that encapsulate the emotion of discovery and drama with humor, while Time Out called it an unbelievably assured debut as a director. Roger Ebert praised the film and gave itand a half stars out of 4, and went to see it a second time to better understand the journey it takes. ........

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