MaestroReviews

Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Flat (Ha-dira)

Deb 7    Me 7

This is a very interesting documentary about a Jewish family who discovers a connection between recently departed grandma and a Nazi SS officer. I enjoyed seeing some of the research process presented on screen and its astonishing how much information on the holocaust is available, even more since the Berlin wall came down. This was a good movie, but it will be a very good TV show someday, seeing it the silver screen added nothing to the viewing experience. A couple questions came up about the making of the movie. There is footage of going through grandma's stuff before the realization she had an interesting past. Why were they shooting this stuff or was it a re-enactment? The film poses a lot of other questions, but they are the meat of the movie and inspire some post popcorn conversation.
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