The Round Up (2010)
(La rafle)
Country: FR/GER/HUN
Technical: col/2.35:1 115m
Director: Rose Bosch
Cast: Mélanie Laurent, Jean Reno, Gad Elmaleh, Anne Brochet, Sylvie Testud
Synopsis:
A catholic nurse devotes herself to helping the Jewish children rounded up by French police during the events nicknamed Vel d'Hiv, after the vélodrome where they were held in cramped and unsalubrious conditions.
Review:
A proper French treatment of their own authorities' complicity in the round up of thousands of French Jewish nationals for Nazi death camps had to come sooner or later. A proposition that carries with it a large budget requirement, it is thus fraught with the potential for commercial compromise, and the present film is not free from the classic pitfalls: comic book Nazis, attractive image-making, resort to classical music for emotional high points, casting a comedian in a dramatic role, ending on a story of survival. Worthy it may be, but it never comes close to putting you through the mill of what these people endured, even when rummaging through excrement for valuables, and ends on admittedly moving images of wholesome children restored.
(La rafle)
Country: FR/GER/HUN
Technical: col/2.35:1 115m
Director: Rose Bosch
Cast: Mélanie Laurent, Jean Reno, Gad Elmaleh, Anne Brochet, Sylvie Testud
Synopsis:
A catholic nurse devotes herself to helping the Jewish children rounded up by French police during the events nicknamed Vel d'Hiv, after the vélodrome where they were held in cramped and unsalubrious conditions.
Review:
A proper French treatment of their own authorities' complicity in the round up of thousands of French Jewish nationals for Nazi death camps had to come sooner or later. A proposition that carries with it a large budget requirement, it is thus fraught with the potential for commercial compromise, and the present film is not free from the classic pitfalls: comic book Nazis, attractive image-making, resort to classical music for emotional high points, casting a comedian in a dramatic role, ending on a story of survival. Worthy it may be, but it never comes close to putting you through the mill of what these people endured, even when rummaging through excrement for valuables, and ends on admittedly moving images of wholesome children restored.
(La rafle)
Country: FR/GER/HUN
Technical: col/2.35:1 115m
Director: Rose Bosch
Cast: Mélanie Laurent, Jean Reno, Gad Elmaleh, Anne Brochet, Sylvie Testud
Synopsis:
A catholic nurse devotes herself to helping the Jewish children rounded up by French police during the events nicknamed Vel d'Hiv, after the vélodrome where they were held in cramped and unsalubrious conditions.
Review:
A proper French treatment of their own authorities' complicity in the round up of thousands of French Jewish nationals for Nazi death camps had to come sooner or later. A proposition that carries with it a large budget requirement, it is thus fraught with the potential for commercial compromise, and the present film is not free from the classic pitfalls: comic book Nazis, attractive image-making, resort to classical music for emotional high points, casting a comedian in a dramatic role, ending on a story of survival. Worthy it may be, but it never comes close to putting you through the mill of what these people endured, even when rummaging through excrement for valuables, and ends on admittedly moving images of wholesome children restored.