Big Sonia

Name: Big Sonia
Genre: History, Family, Documentary
Released: November 17, 2017
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 71
Cast: Caroline Kennedy, Debbie Warshawski, Morrie Warshawski, Regina Kort, Sonia Warshawski

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Argot Pictures | Release Date: November 17, 2017 | Not Rated

Starring: Caroline Kennedy, Debbie Warshawski, Morrie Warshawski, Regina Kort, Sonia Warshawski, SuEllen Fried

Summary: In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to resist her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide.In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to resist her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide. A poignant story of generational trauma and healing, Big Sonia also offers a laugh-out-loud-funny portrait of the power of love to triumph over bigotry, and the power of truth-telling to heal us all.… Expand

Director: Leah Warshawski and Todd Soliday

Genre(s): History, Family, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Moira Macdonald

Feb 8, 2018

Filmed with great respect and palpable love for its subject, Big Sonia is one of those documentaries that seems to bring its own light — just like the woman at its center. Read full review

Chris Packham

Nov 16, 2017

The loose structure is bound by a thread of motherhood. Sonia’s children, two daughters and a son, are lively, intelligent, and deeply affected by their parents’ trauma. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Nov 16, 2017

Key to the strength of Big Sonia is its refusal to give in to easy bromides. Its use of animation to illustrate Sonia’s memories spins off her own artful drawings in a way that amps the sense of unspeakable horror rather than sugarcoating it. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Nov 8, 2017

The animation is the one novel element to this, a familiar sort of film on a most familiar subject. But the movie lets its subject — Sonia — be its strength, and if you’ve ever had the privilege of meeting a survivor willing to talk about what they experienced, you know how smart that decision was. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Dec 7, 2017

Seeing Sonia confidently gripping the leopard print-covered steering wheel of her late model Oldsmobile and getting on with her day serves as a potent and especially timely lesson about living a compassionate, vibrant life that doesn’t have any room for hatred and bitterness. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Dec 8, 2017

Feeling like a director’s cut that would play best for people who already know her, Big Sonia is a feature that could have very likely made a deeper impact with the succinctness of a short film. Read full review

Teo Bugbee

Nov 16, 2017

Sonia is a powerful subject, but Big Sonia brings little perspective to her story. Read full review

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