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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorFascinating.
- 80Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranFor while the idea of comparing the Europe of 60 years ago to the Europe of today sounds didactic, the results are anything but. Ferrario turns out to have a delicate, unforced eye for elegant counterpoints, and his style unobtrusively draws you into the journey.
- 70VarietyVarietySensitive, sobering, and tinged with respectful melancholy, Primo Levi's Journey retraces the enforced peregrinations of the great Italian chemist following his release from Auschwitz.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirPrimo Levi's Journey is a profound meditation on the unevenness of history, reminding us -- as Faulkner once remarked -- that the past not only isn't dead, it isn't really past at all.
- 70The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisVividly impressionistic and delightfully curious.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckA rather unfocused but ultimately provocative portrait of Eastern Europe.
- 63New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThe film lacks a certain coherence, and Levi - one of Italy's most important postwar writers - is mostly relegated to an excuse for a sociopolitical travelogue.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoicePrimo Levi's Journey is almost willfully opaque about the actual circumstances of Primo Levi's journey. Who exactly was this man we're meant to be paying homage to, and why did it take him so long to get home?