Everything Is Illuminated (Ogni Cosa e' Illuminata)

What i mostly like about watching movies, is when you happen to see a rather unknown movie and out of nowhere it ends up to be a Great one.
At least to me...!!!
It has been some time since i saw this film at first, a friend of mine suggested it, i watched it , i loved it.
Despite a set of unknown actors (except Elijah Wood "Lord of the rings") and a beginner Director (Liev Schreiber), the film is well acted , well directed.
Funny and dramatic together, Everyting is illuminated ("by the light of the past"), is about a young Jew writer, Jonathan Safran Foer, who journeys to Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather's life during the second world war.
He will be driven in his journey by a very funny Ukrainian-native translator, Alex (Eugene Hutz) whose gorgeous broken English is the best part of the movie, and by Alex grandfather , a rude blind-simulating old man.
The whole film, adapted from the homonym novel by J.S.Foer, is about memory and a precious need to remember.
Quoting wikipedia "The novel takes its title from a quote in Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being: "In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine." The passage refers to the philosophical idea that the greatest tragedies in life can only be experienced to their fullest if we are able to relive them."
Suggestion for my Italian mates : watch it in English.
Cheers
E.