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The Holocaust, ripping appart the fabric of Western society as it did, has naturally been a subject for cinema decade after decade, analysed and lamented in multitudinous ways. A lot less attention has been paid to the first generation that grew up in its shadow. Véra Belmont’s animated adaptation of author Michel Kichka’s memoirs explores the life of one such family in a small Belgian town – a family in which a pair of growing boys become ever more curious about their father’s strange behaviour and the subjects of which he will not speak.
“We think they’re telephone numbers,” says young Michel (Esteban Oertil) when explaining to the local sweet shop owner why he and his younger brother Charley (Gabin Geunoun) are curious about the tattoos which she and their father have on their arms. Establishing that their father has told them nothing, she is deeply uncomfortable,...
“We think they’re telephone numbers,” says young Michel (Esteban Oertil) when explaining to the local sweet shop owner why he and his younger brother Charley (Gabin Geunoun) are curious about the tattoos which she and their father have on their arms. Establishing that their father has told them nothing, she is deeply uncomfortable,...
- 11/18/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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