Review of Shoah (1985) by Jason C — 10 Oct 2007
An incredible piece of work by Lanzmann, who spent ten years filming in and around the remnants of Aushwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor, recording over a hundred hours of footage that was eventually whittled down to nine.
Memory is crucial here, evident in the films ommission of archive material. The use of pastoral imagery and damning testimonies offer a rhetoric that suggests these polish backwaters will be forever scarred by the mass genocide they bore witness too.
This review of Shoah (1985) was written by Jason C on 10 Oct 2007.
Shoah has generally received very positive reviews.
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