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Night and Fog

Nuit et Brouillard

1956

Alain Resnais

Documentary, Voice: Michel Bouquet

8.2

5,826

Documentary This lyrical and graphic documentary--one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust's horror--has deeply affected film's treatment of the Holocaust ever since, including Spielberg's "Schindler's List". Documentarian Alain Resnais contrasts 1955 footage of abandoned concentration camps' quiet, empty buildings with black-and-white footage shot there in 1944; the film's overwhelming resonance comes in its allowing the haunting ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"[It] fuses present-tense scenes and archival images, evoking the Holocaust, and the politics that led to it"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Only half an hour long, this is the greatest film ever made about the concentration camps."	POS

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