Of course, the subject of the Vel d'Hiv Round-up is well worth exploring. The Wikipedia article is quite thorough and I recommend visiting the Paris and Drancy pages of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum site. which include photographs and personal histories of Holocaust victims and survivors. And be sure to check out my previous post on films about the Vel d'Hiv.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Our April Author: Tatiana De Rosnay
Of course, the subject of the Vel d'Hiv Round-up is well worth exploring. The Wikipedia article is quite thorough and I recommend visiting the Paris and Drancy pages of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum site. which include photographs and personal histories of Holocaust victims and survivors. And be sure to check out my previous post on films about the Vel d'Hiv.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Sarah's Key Film Festival
It seems our book for this month, Sarah's Key
, is being made into a movie. For a film that's already in post-production, there is surprisingly little information available about it. Perhaps one reason is that another film about the Vel' d'Hiv Round-up has just been released in France, La Rafle:
A longer trailer (French only) is available here. Click here for the film's website. There is no US release date yet. From the Guardian, a bit of reflection on the import of the film here.

If you don't want to wait (or if like me, you'll pass on Sarah's Key), I recommend the far more subtle and challenging, Mr. Klein,
A longer trailer (French only) is available here. Click here for the film's website. There is no US release date yet. From the Guardian, a bit of reflection on the import of the film here.
Mr. Klein is undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of the postwar French cinema; Losey's vaunted visual style is here fused with a brilliantly original scenario by Franco Solinas which captures in chilling detail the complicity of the French citizenry in the anti-Semitism of the Nazi occupiers. Of the few films which even tangentially touch on this topic, ... none has so clearly and effectively articulated the casual acceptance of anti-Semitism in Western Europe. Losey's achievement is magnified by the sophistication of the narrative exposition, which places the theme within the framework of an unconventional psychological detective thriller.
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