83
Metascore
6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerShooting with a respectful remove that captures an intimacy by sheer doggedness, Finkiel creates a rich atmosphere by simply looking, listening and peering past the surfaces.
- 90Chicago ReaderTed ShenChicago ReaderTed ShenFinkiel (a French director who apprenticed with Godard, Tavernier, and Kieslowski) plants clues throughout the film suggesting that the women might be long-lost relatives but declines to wrap things up neatly. The very uncertainty--and the fading possibility of an end to their search--is what makes the film so eerie and poignant.
- 90The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensThis movie operates in the limbo between memory and oblivion that we recognize as daily life. It bears courageous and stringent witness to the impossibility of bearing witness.
- 80TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxHis (Finkiel) ability to control economical dialogue with subtle but unusually powerful images -- haunted faces peering out from behind foggy bus windows; train tracks that once carried other passengers to a death camp -- lend this quiet, unforgettable film an uncanny power.
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittFinkiel's filmmaking is so careful and cautious that it becomes plodding at times. The theme is powerful, though, and the movie's sincerity overrides its heavy-handed tendencies.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAlthough Voyages is mapped with anguish and fear, director Emmanuel Finkiel's characters are survivors, and he never lets us forget it.