Tag: Shoah
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‘Persian Lessons’: Film Review
In “Schindler’s List,” most of the actors spoke English, using accents to indicate their characters’ origins. In “Son of Saul,” the cast struggles to communicate in a mish-mosh of languages, as Jews of different nationalities were thrown together in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Stories about the Holocaust — so vital in trying to reconcile the horrors of the…
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Claude Lanzmann, French Director of Holocaust Documentary ‘Shoah,’ Dies at 92
Claude Lanzmann, the French director behind Holocaust documentary Shoah, has died in Paris at the age of 92.A source on Thursday confirmed a report on his death by French newspaper Le Monde.Released in 1985, Shoah won the New York Film Critics Circle award for best non-fiction film and the BAFTA award for best documentary. Considered…
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Dead Souls’
An eight-hour-and-15-minute documentary is not something you walk into lightly, especially when its subject is the imprisonment and slow-motion murder of human beings. But Wang Bing’s “Dead Souls” is a powerfully sobering and clear-eyed investigation that justifies its length through the gravity and presence of its testimony. Wang, like Claude Lanzmann in “Shoah,” isn’t just…