Its very cliche, but we have to not forget.
Because see whats happening now in the politics of the world…things are shifting to the right.
The couple lives in Amsterdam with their children.
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Instead, the camera lingers on modern day city dwellers going about their lives in the same spots.
Holland deported more Jews proportionally (70%) than any other Western European nation and very few survived.
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I dont know if its a documentary.
I dont know if its a feature film.
I dont know if its art.
I dont know what the hell I was doing.
I was not interested in the whole idea of framing the film as any kind of genre.
At the end of the day, we didnt know what we were going to get.
And it was just a lot of faith in the process, and the film.
The doc premiered at Cannes.A24, which co-financed the film with New Regency, has domestic rights.Deadline review here.
He said the concept had been percolating for years.
Stigter, who is from Amsterdam, said her book focused particularly on where the perpetrators were.
The film is more a wandering through the city.
It deserves no less.
This couldnt be an hour-and-a-half movie, because it just had to have the weight of time.
Its more of an experience than a history lesson.
And it doesnt matter…if you wander off sometimes, added Stigter.
