Everything is Illuminated

While we are talking about movies and entertaining ourselves I would like to mention the movie that entertained me to the core. I wrote that last sentence 20 days back and didn't get a chance to continue until today.
It was one of those movies where you know from the very beginning that you are in for some quality entertainment. The movie is based on a novel of the same title written by Jonathan Safron Foer
The movie had no major cast except for Elijah Wood playing the lead role of a young Jewish American and his endeavor to find the woman who saved his grand father from Nazis during World War II. He travels to Ukraine where he is accompanied by an eccentric native translator "Alex" who studied English at university and is "premium" in his knowledge of the language, along with his grumpy grand father who claims he is blind and his deranged seeing eye bitch named "Sammy Davis Jr Jr" after "Sammy Davis Jr".
Although one would consider it to be a very serious movie based on the plot there are ample doses of humour all the way as the movie progresses with Alex's narrative notable for its broken English and improper usage of synonyms and  that makes the movie thoroughly enjoyable.
The whole movie runs around these three people along with the dog and the strongest element of the movie is the dialogue that is carried out between them. Which means most of the movie contains close shots and as the camera is in your face all the time you can't get away with sloppy acting. The three play their roles with such finesse, one would not be able to make a difference between the role and the actor. There are no exaggerated emotions or senseless violence or forced humour, to sum it all no elements of a commercial entertainer and yet a great entertainer. A simple movie that is naturally beautiful and rich in dialogue with its subtle humour, that would leave you with a sense of elated happiness long after you have watched it. This one is definitely a master piece and I would watch it any time any day just to lift up my mood.
There is so much one could talk about the movie but it is best enjoyed when you watch it and by the time end credits roll, you will see that "Everything Is Illuminated".