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Sarah's Key – review
4 August 2011 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Kristin Scott Thomas is a journalist who uncovers a secret while researching a piece about the roundup of Jews in Paris in 1942
A few weeks ago, Rose Bosch's 2010 film La Rafle, or The Roundup, was released here. It was a decent attempt to dramatise one of French history's most horrifying episodes: thousands of Jews in occupied Paris in 1942 were rounded up at the Nazis' bidding, herded into a sports centre (the Winter velodrome, or Vel d'Hiv) before being sent on to the death camps. It took what might be called a top-down view of this event: narrating the story and showing the political machinations of high-ranking French and German officials who had decided on this horrendous action. This film, by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, comes at the same subject from a different angle. Kristin Scott Thomas plays Julia Jarmond, a modern-day journalist working on a magazine feature about the Vel d'Hiv affair. »
- Peter Bradshaw
A Moving Trailer For La Rafle (The Roundup)
1 August 2011 5:58 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
From writer-director Rose Bosch comes La Rafle (The Roundup), a film that tells the story of the 1942 'Vel' d'Hiv Roundup'. Its main cast includes Jean Reno (Leon The Professional, The Da Vinci Code) as a Jewish doctor, and Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, The Concert) as a Christian nurse. The film was a box office hit in France and won numerous Audience Awards at film festivals. Synopsis: In picturesque Montmarte, three children wearing a yellow star play in the streets, oblivious to the darkness spreading over Nazi-occupied France. Their parents do not seem too concerned either, somehow putting their trust in the Vichy Government. But beyond this view, much is going on. Hitler demands that the French government round up its Jews and put »
DVD Review: The Round Up
31 July 2011 1:15 PM, PDT | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »
The Round Up
Stars: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh | Written and Directed by Rose Bosch
If you’re looking for a summer feel-good film, look away now. Still with us? Good. The Round Up is a French language period drama, set in Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. The fragile peace of the Jewish communities is rocked as the Nazis tighten their grip on Jewish freedoms before arresting over 13,000 people and transporting them to the Vel’ d’Hiv velodrome. There they are cared for by a small number of tireless nurses and Jean Reno’s Jewish doctor, before being moved on to a work camp. We already know all too well what fate awaited them after that.
The film is painstakingly researched from eyewitness accounts and portrays one of the most disturbing and merciless chapters of history. Writer and director Rose Bosch captures the events of the film with a dignified and humane touch. »
- Jack Kirby
The Round Up review
4 July 2011 3:00 AM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
We've been inundated with films about the second World War, Hitler and the holocaust, but former investigative journalist Rose Bosch tries to give us a new perspective in exploring the French angle in her new feature The Round-Up.
Still, The Round-Up is moving in its attention to detail. Signs displayed on train carriages like "people 40, horses 8” act as a constant reminder to the horrific conditions the Jews contended with, as do the crammed stadium scenes and reflections from a WW1 Verdun nurse who claims facilities were better in the trenches. Talk of “only four suicides so far” during the round-up highlight the shocking disregard for human life prevalent in some warped leaders' minds during WW2. One of the most stirring moments is when the ever-optimistic “parasites” walking from the station to the camp start singing. It's certainly difficult viewing - especially when considering the sheer brutality of the Nazi regime »
The Round Up – review
18 June 2011 4:04 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A popular hit in France, Rose Bosch's La Rafle is a dramatisation of the night of 16 July 1942, when Paris gendarmes arrested more than 13,000 Jews in their homes and interned them in the winter velodrome. The film also depicts life under German-occupation for Jews in Paris (wearing yellow stars, being sacked from public jobs such as teaching) and contains scenes of Hitler at Berchtesgaden that are clearly based on Eva Braun's home film footage, and reconstructions of Maréchal Pétain signing the Jews' death warrants. The film's glossy colour palette and stylisation may initially give the impression of a quaint period film (more shoah-business), but ultimately there is no denying the power of the events, the importance of them now being told in movie form, nor the clear-eyed way that Bosch dramatises previously dry historical facts – in order to leave us misty-eyed.
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- Jason Solomons
This week's new films
17 June 2011 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Life In A Day (12A)
(Kevin Macdonald, 2011, Us)
Compiled from amateur submissions of what people all over the world did on 24 July 2010, this documentary sets itself an almighty challenge. It's fashioned into some sort of narrative order, with recurring themes and music, and moments of emotion and illumination, which saves it from becoming a random global channel-surf. But you could say the subjective "direction" and homogenising technical treatment are at odds with the democratic intentions.
The Beaver (12A)
(Jodie Foster, 2011, Us) Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin. 91 mins
Having crucified Jesus, Gibson now nails himself to the cross in a bizarre talk-to-the-hand family drama that feels more like the actor's own public therapy session.
Green Lantern (12A)
(Martin Campbell, 2011, Us) Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard. 114 mins
Like banks, summer superhero movies are now too big to fail. But will Reynolds's charm, a virtual costume and some interplanetary effects be »
- Steve Rose
The Round Up – review
16 June 2011 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
A straightforward, heartfelt drama about the Nazi occupation of France. By Peter Bradshaw
The Nazi occupation is still a controversial subject in France. Just last month, on getting the red card at Cannes for his "Nazi" joke, Lars von Trier flung the "Vichy" jibe at the festival organisers: reminding them of the collaboration. This drama, from writer-director Rose Bosch, does a decent job of recreating the horror of this period. Thousands of Jews were rounded up in Paris in 1942, herded into a sports arena and then sent off to the camps, never to return. A single line over the final credits recalls that thousands more Jews were in fact hidden from the Gestapo by brave Parisians – but the drama itself toughly focuses on those who were cravenly delivered to the Nazis by complicit French police officers and civil servants. Jean Reno plays a kindly Jewish doctor who stayed with his »
- Peter Bradshaw
Jean Reno as Rasputin: director interview
6 April 2011 3:59 AM, PDT | indiemoviesonline | See recent indiemoviesonline news »
Mysterious, complex, contradictory – all qualities often ascribed to Grigori Rasputin. Okay, sure, most people looked at him with terror and with fear. But, it must be noted, to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear. Director of The Round Up, Rose Bosch, is prepping a new movie about Rasputin, with Jean Reno in the lead role, and I recently spoke to her about it.
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- PaulMartin
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