Voyages

French director Emmanuel Finkiel's extraordinary, heartbreaking film is spun from the stories of three aging Jewish women whose lives were irreparably damaged by the Holocaust. Rivka (Shulamit Adar), who lost her parents and sister to the camps, and her husband are on vacation in Poland and she's determined to see Auschwitz. But the tour bus breaks down on a forbidding stretch of frozen Polish countryside. The situation's awful irony — a group of Jews clamoring to get to Auschwitz — is undercut by the genuine pathos of the passengers: They move like orphaned ghosts, carrying their pain, fear and anger through a world that...