To Life

Name: To Life
Genre: Drama
Released: May 27, 2016
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 56

2016

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Breaking Glass Pictures | Release Date: May 27, 2016

Summary: Helene, Lili and Rose met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. However, after the liberation of the camp, they lost touch. Lili went back to the Netherlands. Rose married a former deportee andHelene, Lili and Rose met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. However, after the liberation of the camp, they lost touch. Lili went back to the Netherlands. Rose married a former deportee and settled down in Canada. Helene returned home to France, where she met an old childhood sweetheart, and married him, aware of his impotency caused by sinister doctors carrying out experiments on him in the concentration camp. Determined to find her old companions, Helene puts an ad in a deportees newspaper. Against all odds, the ad is answered and the women are reunited. The reunion takes place in Berck Plage in the north of France. The women rediscover each other, as well as help each other to overcome their Auschwitz demons.… Expand

Director: Jean-Jacques Zilbermann

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 104 min

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Helen T. Verongos

May 26, 2016

There is a delicate beauty to this movie and its visual composition. Read full review

Johanna Schneller

May 26, 2016

À la vie is a gentle toast – the film sticks to its subtle tone, which is both its strength and its weakness. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

May 26, 2016

More resonant in theory than in execution, the post-Holocaust drama To Life never truly embraces the promise of its title or the roiling emotion beneath its surface. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

May 26, 2016

Absent any real sense of who these three women are as individuals, most of their behavior is reduced to what feels like tics that are meant to illuminate character in a rather crude way. Read full review

Peter Debruge

May 26, 2016

Given the complexity of everything the characters went through, it’s a shame to witness their lives reduced to a sequence of TV-movie moments. Read full review

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