The adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel is practically two different films welded together. The first half, a road trip of deadpan eccentrics, could invite comparison with Jarmusch or Kaurismaki; the latter stages involve an enveloping tragedy handled with some delicacy.

It's an audacious debut for actor-turned-director Liev Schreiber. Elijah Wood gives a one-note performance as the buttoned-up American in Ukraine to find the women who saved his grandfather from the Nazis, but interpreter Eugene Hutz is a lot of fun as a character not dissimilar to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat.

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