The Girls writer stars alongside Stephen Fry as a father and daughter on a 'Holocaust road trip' through Poland
The Girls writer stars alongside Stephen Fry as a father and daughter on a 'Holocaust road trip' through Poland
Lena Dunham as Ruth, left, and Stephen Fry as Edek, her father. The two are left alone to deal with their awkward relationship and unresolved generational trauma after Ruth’s mother dies as a father and daughter on a Holocaust road trip, intending to lay to rest the ghosts of their past, is a sort of absurdist tragicomedy, in which people often just make awkward jokes rather than address the issue at hand.to visit his old home.
“What are you looking for?” asks Edek, with Fry’s heavily laid-on Eastern European accent. “To see where I’m from, get a piece of it maybe?” Ruth replies, after they’ve visited his old apartment and found it inhabited by impoverished, avaricious tenants intent on selling them their old belongings at exorbitant prices. “You come from America, that is your piece,” replies Edek bluntly, in case the audience hadn’t quite cottoned on to the two’s differing views over the importance of provenance.
He wants to forget everything that happened, interrupting moments of connection with comedy, and ruining his daughter’s carefully laid plans with impromptu visits to the Chopin museum. Anything to avoid the horror. Ruth, meanwhile, desperately wants to understand where she comes from. “I wish I could speak Polish. So we could speak more,” she explains effortfully. Yes, the two literally speak different languages.But the clever pairing of Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham offsets some of that clumsiness. Fry’s knack for switching suddenly from affable, well-intentioned fool to traumatised little boy has the power to shock both us, and Ruth.
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