Word: holocaustal
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...sellout second film of the festival, takes place nearly 50 years and a continent away from Arik Sharon. The German Jews Aron and Bela Trotzig move with their children David and Mendel to Norway from Germany in 1954 in an effort to escape the lingering horror of the Holocaust. Mendel, born after the war ended and temporarily shielded from knowledge of the Holocaust by his parents, confronts a world where much remains incomprehensible and the past is a blank. His main concern becomes his struggle to decipher the story he has only half-heard in whispers his whole life...
...present, are neatly combined to form a cohesive synthesis. Blood Money makes a coherent and damaging, if biased, argument against the Swiss for their role in helping the Nazis hide the plunder they took from Jews and other victims of their regime. The moving testimony of many Holocaust survivors who are still seeking to recover money trapped by the secretive Swiss banking system is far more powerful than any exculpatory evidence the Swiss could produce...
...popular and egoistic class jock. Afterwards, when Daisy reads a lustful love poem aloud in class, Ethan immediately recognizes to whom the composition is addressed. He, of course, pursues her and they soon become a couple. But when she confides to Ethan that her Nana is a Holocaust survivor, he suddenly becomes aloof. Daisy's "emotional journey" begins as she searches for a true sense of her identity...
...possibility of a modern drama framed by Holocaust themes is a promising one. This film, however, begins shooting blanks right from the start...
These paintings, however, had always been marked as part of the French retrieval effort. Why now, should there be a stink about unclaimed objects that belonged to Holocaust victims or even survivors who have not reclaimed their art in the last 50 years? Feliciano betrayed some the faulty logic of this hullaballoo in The New York Times article: "'I asked people why they never investigated,' Mr. Feliciano said, 'and they said they had more important things to deal with... They said they were so happy to live that they didn't ask for material things...