Setting out to trace her father’s experiences during World War II, graphic designer Marina Willer combines excerpts from his memoirs with her own observations and new footage, aiming for an alchemy that she achieves only fitfully.
With its story of survival and migration after devastating loss, the film’s tone is both elegiac and hopeful, but it’s not the powerfully contemplative essay that Willer clearly intends it to be. The sad truth is that we’ve heard countless harrowing stories of the Holocaust, and this one, for the most part, isn’t presented in a way that makes it indelible or urgent. The...
With its story of survival and migration after devastating loss, the film’s tone is both elegiac and hopeful, but it’s not the powerfully contemplative essay that Willer clearly intends it to be. The sad truth is that we’ve heard countless harrowing stories of the Holocaust, and this one, for the most part, isn’t presented in a way that makes it indelible or urgent. The...
- 9/14/2017
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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