Claudio Carvalho
The Jewish widower Joe Rabin (Kirk Douglas) travels with his daughter Marcy Rabin (Pam Dawber) from America to Israel for a reunion of Holocaust survivors. Marcy is a journalist and will cover the encounter and her father has a secret reason for the trip: he wants to find the whereabouts of his girlfriend Leah, who was pregnant during the war. He succeeds in his research but Leah (Chana Eden) is a married woman. When her husband travels to another city for a couple of days, they rekindle their love and Joe learns the fate of their baby. Meanwhile Marcy falls in love with the Jewish chief of security David (Yoram Gal).
"Remembrance of Love" is a melodramatic soap opera and propaganda of the Holocaust. The romances of Joe Rabin and Leah, and Marcy and David, have no chemistry and are not dramatic. The guy moves to America and only when his wife dies, he misses his former girlfriend and remember to look for her and their baby. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Lembranças de Um Amor" ("Remembrance of a Love")
blumdeluxe
"Remembrance of Love" tells the story of a Shoah survivor, who recently lost his wife and travels to Israel with his daughter to participate in a gathering of former camp prisoners. There, he searches for a young girl he once left behind pregnant, meets her by chance and has to learn that love can't overcome everything. Meanwhile his daughter falls in love with an Israeli security agent and is caught between career and emotions.It is, of course, a very serious setting that this film chooses and that makes it something special. Overall it is quite an ordinary romance but the tragic circumstances that seperated the two leave you hoping for them to be happy again. What happens is understandable, even though it is not necessarily the right thing to do. The part with his daughter was a bit too much for me personally, she just meets someone for a few days and falls madly in love, maybe I'm just unromantic but that did seem quite forced.All in all the movie is somewhere inbetween a drama and a romance and personally I would have preferred more drama. That way it somehow stays a cliché romance with a very dark background. Not a bad movie, a lot of truth and wisdom but not as shaking as it could have been.
HotToastyRag
In Remembrance of Love, Kirk Douglas and his daughter Pam Dawber travel to Israel for a reunion of Holocaust survivors. She's a journalist and interested in learning everyone's stories, but he's very closed-lipped about his experiences. Turns out, he fell in love before the war, and he's hoping to find his sweetheart at the reunion.As you might be able to tell from the title, this movie is all about romance. Pam falls for Yoram Gal, and Kirk's romance with Chana Eden is two-fold, told in the present and through flashbacks of the past. The cutest parts of the movie are the flashbacks, since Kirk's son Eric Douglas plays his younger self! Eric and Irit Frank are really cute together, which is necessary for the audience to care and root for them when they grow older.If you like these types of movies, or books like The Lost Wife, you might want to give this a watch. It was just a little too "tv movie" for my taste, even though it had good intentions. It completely fits in with every stereotype of a television movie from the 1980s, but depending on your style, that will make you seek or avoid it.
Lolly2222
Chana Eden was a wonderful choice for Leah. Pam Dawber was an awful choice as the daughter. Robert Clary, playing himself and as I know an actual Holocaust survivor, just an obvious choice to be politically correct but an awful actor. Kirk Douglas acts with his eyes, and without words he conveys volumes. Worth the investment in time and money to own this video. This film is gorgeous and if you've been to Israel, you want to catch this gem. There are many messages quite poignant. I like this film and Kirk Douglas, as always, brings it all to the table. Again Pam Dawber couldn't have been a more awful casting as the daughter. YIKES. I loved a cute scene when Kirk Douglas dances in celebration of the birth of his grandson. He has it all, does it all, when he is on screen I am most happy.
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