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| Icarus Films | Release Date: March 13, 2020 |
Starring:
Thomas Heise
Summary:
In this immersive film essay, master documentary filmmaker Thomas Heise dives into four generations of his own family archives to trace the profound cultural and political upheaval of Germany's last century.
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Mar 12, 2020
The Film Stage
Mar 12, 2020
Mar 12, 2020
In its extreme length and precise technique, it’s decidedly not for everybody. But although it is at times distractingly opaque, occasionally Heise’s family’s words, juxtaposed with his sounds and images, crystallize into something singularly wise about the nexus of place, history and trauma.
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Mar 10, 2020
RogerEbert.com
Mar 13, 2020
If this material were compiled into a book, it would be rightfully deemed great literature. As featured in Heise’s film, however, these insightful words are frequently marred by a style oddly akin to a mournful podcast, one that requires listeners to repeatedly peer at their phone to read the subtitles.
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