Who played in the zookeepers wife5/22/2023 Jewish suffering and Nazi evil tend not to be grappled with so much as presented in glossy, gussied-up cinematic packages, ready for mass consumption. But most screen depictions of this defining 20th-century atrocity, no matter their angle, rely on predictable emotional, visual and musical cues to coax the audience toward weepy catharsis (see: Life Is Beautiful, Jakob the Liar, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The Book Thief, Woman in Gold). Uncomfortable as it is to admit, there have been so many mediocre Holocaust movies post- Schindler’s List that a certain fatigue has set in.Įxceptions exist, of course - films like Roman Polanski’s The Pianist or Lajos Koltai’s Fateless, which, through their clarity of vision and lack of sentimentality, force us to see the horror with fresh eyes.
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