10 March 2012

Let them eat cake

W ciemności (In darkness)

Crit
Moral murkiness in the sub-Ghetto sewers of Lvov, as sanitation inspector/entrepreneur Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz)--think poor (and smellier) man's Oskar Schindler--first exploits the Jews hiding in his domain, then becomes increasingly sympathetic to their plight, and increasingly altruistic as a result.

Director Agnieszka Holland has been doing a lot of work in recent years on American TV, including 3 episodes each of Treme and The Wire. I don't know what that has to do with making a Holocaust film, but it seems not to have hurt, anyway.

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