Tag Archives: Holocaust

DVD review | Sarah’s Key – Kristin Scott Thomas unlocks the secrets of France’s wartime past

Posted on 28 November 2011 by Jason Best

This sombre Holocaust drama based on a best-selling French novel finds Kristin Scott Thomas in typically fine form as an investigative journalist exploring French complicity in the notorious Vel d’Hiv roundup of Parisian Jews in July 1942. An American woman married to a … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Posted on 8 October 2009 by Beth Williams

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas may be a family drama, but do bear in mind that the film has a shock ending that is truly horrific. Being a film about the Holocaust, that’s probably not a surprise. However, as … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | The Reader – Oscar-winning Kate Winslet plays a woman with a dark past

Posted on 25 May 2009 by Jason Best

Kate Winslet won her long-awaited Oscar for her role in The Reader, a compelling story of love and shame, guilt and reconciliation set in the shadow of the Holocaust. She plays tram conductor Hannah, a woman with a dark past … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Good – Sleepwalking through the nightmare of Hitler’s Germany

Posted on 17 April 2009 by Jason Best

We would all have been heroes had we lived in Hitler’s Germany, wouldn’t we? We would have recognised the dangers of Nazism from the start, held fast to our moral principles and taken an unwavering stand against evil. Of course, … Continue reading →

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Couch Potato Pickings | Big Daddy, The Fall, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: and what they all have in common

Posted on 1 April 2009 by Beth Williams

Child actors! I normally shy away from films that feature children. In my experience, these are either films aimed at kids (and I’m no longer one of those), films aimed at childish adults (and I like to think I’m not … Continue reading →

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Out on DVD | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Posted on 9 March 2009 by Jason Best

Eight-year-old Bruno is upset when his father’s new job takes the family away from 1940s Berlin to live in the country, but his mood improves after he makes friends with Shmuel, a boy his own age. A barbed-wire fence, however, … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | The Reader

Posted on 2 January 2009 by Jason Best

Kate Winslet is on top form in The Reader, a compelling story of love and shame, guilt and reconciliation set in the shadow of the Holocaust. She plays tram conductor Hannah, a woman with a dark past who has a … Continue reading →

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The Best View – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Posted on 12 September 2008 by Jason Best

Can you make a children’s film about the Holocaust? Isn’t the very idea obscene? Surely the Nazi genocide of European Jews is not a fit subject for family entertainment? Well, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is just such a … Continue reading →

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