A rebellious teen of Hungarian decent who spent the first six years of her life with foster parents in her mother country, feels inexplicably impelled to visit Budapest after an especially brutal fight with her mother.
She absorbs the sights and sounds and culture of that old city with the wide, innocent eyes of a child and finds answers to questions she didn't even know she had.
Though it is a bit of a condensed theatrical contrivance, we share her newfound, profound ability to understand her mother, a problem she had struggled with since the first day she arrived in America.
Scarlett Johansson is an actress to watch very carefully. Her performance was gritty and raw in the improvised argument scenes, subtle and moving in scenes with no dialogue where her main action was to react, where we are invited to share her private thoughts.
The film ultimately forces an American audience to examine our own origins or at least where we come from in our hearts.
She absorbs the sights and sounds and culture of that old city with the wide, innocent eyes of a child and finds answers to questions she didn't even know she had.
Though it is a bit of a condensed theatrical contrivance, we share her newfound, profound ability to understand her mother, a problem she had struggled with since the first day she arrived in America.
Scarlett Johansson is an actress to watch very carefully. Her performance was gritty and raw in the improvised argument scenes, subtle and moving in scenes with no dialogue where her main action was to react, where we are invited to share her private thoughts.
The film ultimately forces an American audience to examine our own origins or at least where we come from in our hearts.