Four Seasons Lodge

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marie l The Four Seasons Lodge broke my heart. I wanted to hug everyone of its inhabitants and absorb their pain if i could. They appreciated their summers at the lodge and the comfort they got from each other because of their shared tragic past. They triumphed over their past and tried to enjoy "a little bit their life"! G-D bless their souls. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Oh, a marvelous little film about a group of elderly people who join together each summer at the Four Seasons Lodge in the Catskills to live in a "colony"with fellow holocaust survivors. Their bond is one of both the shared experiences of their lives as well as the the joyousness of coming together each summer to celebrate life. A moving film about surviving, love and celebration of life. With a bissel Yiddish thrown in. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review greg r Absolutely incredible. The stories of these amazing people, told in the mountains they loved to summer in. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Absolutely heart warming movie and tear eyed movie......depicts episodes of these Holocaust survivors lives and why they came together!! Brilliant!! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A dry but real look at a colony of holocaust survivors in New York, living their everyday lives in their reflective years of retirement. The stories of pain and suffering are kept at a minimum, while the film focuses more on their present day lives and communal arrangement. Although I have a great respect for the film and the subjects, its just not that interesting of a film. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member When the second-rate band rips into "I Will Survive" at the end of "Four Seasons Lodge", the first instinct is to roll one's eyes; what a hackneyed tune! "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," Noel Coward commented, and as the lyrics unfold ("Did you think I'd crumble/did you think I'd lay down and die/Oh no not I/I will survive/Oh as long as I know how to love I know I'll be alive"), the emotional force of this story suddenly wallops you. On the surface, this is "just" a documentary about a bunch of Jewish senior citizens who share cabins at a "resort" (to put it kindly) in the Catskills every summer; these elderly men and women, however, are almost all Holocaust survivors who have created this new "family" out of the only people like themselves who survived the horrors of the Nazis. The film is overlong and meandering, and has the unfortunate luck to be released after the sublime "Young At Heart." Still, you can't trump those black-and-white pictures of this film's subjects in their youth, mere weeks before they were sent to another kind of camp and everything they know was swept away in the ovens at Auschwitz. To these people, simply sitting in the sun or dancing to music is a powerful affirmation of the will to live; they have indeed survived, and this new "camp" is their symbolic triumph over the past. It may not belong in the upper-pantheon of Holocaust documentaries, but "Four Seasons Lodge" still has an urgent poignancy that can't be dismissed. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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