Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Country: NZ/CZ/US
Technical: col 108m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson
Synopsis:
In the dying days of WW2, a ten year-old German boy does what he can for the cause as a fully indoctrinated member of the Hitler Youth. Unable to kill even a rabbit, and injured in a grenade exercise, he rubs up against his mother's liberal views and, to cap it all, discovers a Jewish girl concealed behind the wainscoting.
Review:
Potentially the film most likely to cause offence after La vita è bella, this blackly comic coming of age story makes its Nazis either affectionately incompetent or pantomimically harmless, while the damage they cause is all too real. It's like a Kiwi Young Einstein, a complete re-imagining of the Nazi experience, as seen through the imagination of a small boy. It raises a few laughs, certainly, as well as one or two tears, and as such is a skilfully poised exercise in tone control.
Country: NZ/CZ/US
Technical: col 108m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson
Synopsis:
In the dying days of WW2, a ten year-old German boy does what he can for the cause as a fully indoctrinated member of the Hitler Youth. Unable to kill even a rabbit, and injured in a grenade exercise, he rubs up against his mother's liberal views and, to cap it all, discovers a Jewish girl concealed behind the wainscoting.
Review:
Potentially the film most likely to cause offence after La vita è bella, this blackly comic coming of age story makes its Nazis either affectionately incompetent or pantomimically harmless, while the damage they cause is all too real. It's like a Kiwi Young Einstein, a complete re-imagining of the Nazi experience, as seen through the imagination of a small boy. It raises a few laughs, certainly, as well as one or two tears, and as such is a skilfully poised exercise in tone control.
Country: NZ/CZ/US
Technical: col 108m
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson
Synopsis:
In the dying days of WW2, a ten year-old German boy does what he can for the cause as a fully indoctrinated member of the Hitler Youth. Unable to kill even a rabbit, and injured in a grenade exercise, he rubs up against his mother's liberal views and, to cap it all, discovers a Jewish girl concealed behind the wainscoting.
Review:
Potentially the film most likely to cause offence after La vita è bella, this blackly comic coming of age story makes its Nazis either affectionately incompetent or pantomimically harmless, while the damage they cause is all too real. It's like a Kiwi Young Einstein, a complete re-imagining of the Nazi experience, as seen through the imagination of a small boy. It raises a few laughs, certainly, as well as one or two tears, and as such is a skilfully poised exercise in tone control.