I SO wanted to see this and like it, and especially with Helen Mirren involved. Her aspect was frustrating and - I guess I would say overbearing in how she seemed to be TRYING to elicit so much emotion yet still comes off as mostly disconnected. But that's the lesser of the problem - as many others have noted, the millennial instagram influencer sideshow was obnoxious to say the least. It has no place in this kind of production and the last thing that should be resorted to in ANY documentary type of story is gimmickry. I get that they want to attract young viewers - but simply sticking a hipster Kardashian type and the inane hashtags made me constantly hit the fast-forward button. Good job ruining what could have been a very compelling and important film.
#Anne Frank Parallel Stories
2019
Action / Documentary / Drama / History
#Anne Frank Parallel Stories
2019
Action / Documentary / Drama / History
6.5Keywords: anne frank
Plot summary
One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows-Primo Levi. The Oscar®-winning Helen Mirren will introduce audiences to Anne Frank's story through the words in her diary. The set will be her room in the secret refuge in Amsterdam, reconstructed in every detail by set designers from the Piccolo Theatre in Milan. Anne Frank this year would have been 90 years old. Anne's story is intertwined with that of five Holocaust survivors, teenage girls just like her, with the same ideals, the same desire to live: Arianna Szörenyi, Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard, Helga Weiss and sisters Andra and Tatiana Bucci. Their testimonies alternate with those of their children and grandchildren. Off "the set", a girl of today will lead us on a journey to get to know the places that were part of Anne's short life and her feelings. She speaks to us through social networks. In fact, photos and posts are her language, and in this way Martina gives us her interpretation of what she discovers, what she sees, from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany to the Holocaust Memorial in Paris, up to and including her visit to the secret refuge in Amsterdam. In the documentary we also hear the voices of Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, historian and professor of Jewish studies at various American universities.Original soundtrack by Lele Marchitelli. Produced in collaboration with Anne Frank Fond Basel.
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Ok
There was a lot of good in this documentary but the bad outweighed the good unfortunately. With the girl hashtaging left right and centre and Helen Mirren's terrible acting,it just left you feeling with a bit of a arms up in the air feeling.
A Sensitive Introduction to Anne Frank
Let's face it, Helen Mirren can do no wrong, and here reading from the diary of Anne Frank she is ever so watchable and gives intensity to the writings of a victim of Nazism who has come to symbolize the suffering of millions. This film is a good introduction to a historical figure while also offering the testimony of living Holocaust survivors who were around Anne's age when they were imprisoned in concentration camps. Their "parallel stories" are what the film's title refers to. Like other reviewers, however, I felt the introduction of a contemporary young girl shown tweeting around historical sites merely distracting and an obvious attempt to attract young viewers. Mirren's voice alone made me want to read the book again.