Left Luggage

Castle Hill Productions | Release Date: September 22, 2000

6.3	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Ratings

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chimpanzeesMar 3, 2015

Speaking for myself I think it was a very good movie. You have movies about the tension between secular and religious Jews and movies about holocaust survivors. Both parts are incorporated in this movie.
Chaya, a Jewish college-aged woman inSpeaking for myself I think it was a very good movie. You have movies about the tension between secular and religious Jews and movies about holocaust survivors. Both parts are incorporated in this movie.
Chaya, a Jewish college-aged woman in Antwerp, Belgium, couldn’t care less about her family’s stories. Also she finds the Chasidim is very weird.
In order to raise some money to pay for her rent, she accepts to work as the nanny of two twin babies and a little boy in on orthodox Jewish home. Although she’s ready to quit the first day, she quickly develops a kinship with the youngest boy. The youngest boy’s name is Simcha. He can’t speak, even though he’s four years old.
Chaya spend allot of time whit the boy. As a result, she brings him out. He saw more things of life and has a lot of fun. He begins talking and even sing the Mah Nishtanah at the Seder.
Through the movie, I realize that you as orthodox Jewish people still can get good friends with people who is less faithful. You see that hatred of a particular group of people is not good. Everyone is different and with some of these group can you have fine experience.… Expand

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bramneelMar 3, 2015

The movie shows interesting human strategies for dealing with loss, whether the death of loved ones or the annihilation of entire people's as in the Holocaust. The film shows a lot of love for friends, but it’s hard when it comes to a loss ofThe movie shows interesting human strategies for dealing with loss, whether the death of loved ones or the annihilation of entire people's as in the Holocaust. The film shows a lot of love for friends, but it’s hard when it comes to a loss of a loved person.
Two Jewish families in Antwerp deal catastrophically with problems in life. One family tries to escape from everything Jewish and become modern. This leaves such an emptiness, that the father of the family doesn't know why he spends all his time searching the city and reading maps or books for the place where he buried some family luggage with the family treasure, before being deported during the Holocaust in WO II. The other family is an very orthodox Judaism family, they cuts themselves off from all that is new and different. But when Chaya, the daughter from the other family, comes in their lives they change and they are looking different to the world and accept her in their lives.… Expand

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MaxAlbertzMar 3, 2015

Left luggage is a good movie about survivors of the holocaust.
The main character Chaya in the movie is a student who just got a job as a nanny at a religious Jewish family. In my opinion she is played very well by the actress Laura Fraser.Left luggage is a good movie about survivors of the holocaust.
The main character Chaya in the movie is a student who just got a job as a nanny at a religious Jewish family. In my opinion she is played very well by the actress Laura Fraser. The family is very religious and she has a hard time adjusting to those customs. But she keeps working there because she grows fond of the disabled Jewish boy and helps him. I think it’s quite adorable and there were some moving moments in the movie.
Her parents are survivors of the holocaust and her father has buried some luggage before the holocaust. I find it odd that the move is named left luggage but the movie is more about the Shaya working as a nanny.
In my experience I learned a lot about Jewish customs.… Expand

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TomSchrijversMar 3, 2015

I think it is a very nice movie. But some of the actors have a very strange accent and are difficult to understand.
The movie begins with a man who buries his suitcase. Throughout the movie you see its Chayas father and he tries to find hisI think it is a very nice movie. But some of the actors have a very strange accent and are difficult to understand.
The movie begins with a man who buries his suitcase. Throughout the movie you see its Chayas father and he tries to find his suitcase in the yards of people in Antwerp.
I have seen many habits of Jewish people. I think the character of Simcha Kalman is very well played. And certainly because he is so young. At the beginning he was to scared to talk. But after he went to the pond with Chaya Silberschmidt for the first time, he imitated the sound of the ducks. But throughout the movie he talks to much more people. He even talks with his father where he was afraid of.
The saddest moment of the movie is when Chaya know that Simcha was drowned in the pond. After she heard this, she went to the family. But first she was not welcome and she was blamed for the death of Simcha.… Expand

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coensmitsMar 3, 2015

Left luggage is a film about children who survived the holocaust, not a common subject. They have a heavy life specially Simcha, a 4 year old boy from a family of 5. In the beginning he refused to talk until he met his new nanny; Chaya, sheLeft luggage is a film about children who survived the holocaust, not a common subject. They have a heavy life specially Simcha, a 4 year old boy from a family of 5. In the beginning he refused to talk until he met his new nanny; Chaya, she teaches him to speak while walking in the park. Suddenly he imitates the sound of a duck. The family is Chaya really thankful. Chaya and Simcha have built up an amazing friendship. That friendship was the only positive part in the film. All the rest was drama, from the beginning to the end and back. Not a film I would choose to watch but we watched it at school. That is one part of the story, the other part is about Chaya and her family. Her father is obsessed by finding the luggage he buried somewhere in Antwerp. He drives his wife creasy whit his obsession. Overall it is a good film if you like drama.… Expand

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