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Tag Archives: Holocaust
Film review | This Must Be the Place – Sean Penn’s retired Goth rocker goes on a Nazi-hunting road trip
Funnier on screen than he’s been in any part since permanently stoned surfer dude Jeff Spicoli in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridegmont High, Sean Penn is terrific in the lead role of Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s distinctly offbeat This Must … Continue reading
DVD review | Sarah’s Key – Kristin Scott Thomas unlocks the secrets of France’s wartime past
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
Couch Potato Pickings | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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
Out on DVD | The Reader – Oscar-winning Kate Winslet plays a woman with a dark past
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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Tagged Berlin, Bernhard Schlink, David Hare, David Kross, Holocaust, Kate Winslet, Oscar, Ralph Fiennes, Reader, Stephen Daldry
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The Best view | Good – Sleepwalking through the nightmare of Hitler’s Germany
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
Posted in Cinema Releases, The Best View
Tagged CP Taylor, Good, Hitler, Holocaust, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Mark Strong, Nazis, Philipp Bouhler, Vicente Amorim, Viggo Mortensen
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Couch Potato Pickings | Big Daddy, The Fall, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: and what they all have in common
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
Out on DVD | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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
At the Cinema | The Reader
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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Tagged Bernhard Schlink, David Hare, Holocaust, Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Daldry, The Hours, The Reader
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The Best View – The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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
