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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Moving + doesn't put a foot wrong
You don't often sit in a BAFTA screening and hear weeping behind you but even the most hardened cineaste would be moved by this look at the holocaust through an Aryan child's eyes.
It is beautifully scripted, acted and shot too - with none of the anachronisms of taste and language that bedevil historically-set films such as The Duchess.
A small, British movie with an unusual take on a ghastly and well-worn subject.
PS - for parents: It's a 12A in Britain and I wouldn't take a child under about eleven. Nor would I let them go alone.
Stellet Licht (2007)
slow, pretentious twaddle
I saw this at the Renoir in Bloomsbury - one of the most respected art-house cinemas. In fact it's the one I trust so much that I don't even find out about some of their movies - if the Renoir has selected it, it will be good. Betrayal though on this one: an incredibly slow, pretentious turkey. Even an audience of dedicated cineastes, like they get there, was sighing, wriggling and checking blackberries. In fact I woke up after dozing off fifteen minutes in and hoped I might be near the end....but that was weeks later and deeply unsatisfactory. Just as well there was only about three pages of dialogue - in some strange dialect - because the white on white subtitles were unreadable. it didn't seem to matter as there was no plot and no communication between the characters. Save yourselves two hours and seven minutes and find something else to do.