Counterfeiters, The
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, 2007
My review of The Counterfeiters [on Blu-ray Disc] is online over at Filmfreakcentral.net.
This year's winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) is defined in equal terms by what it is and what it isn't. It is a
Holocaust survivor's yarn told with a certain playfulness and no lack
of moral consideration, but it is not really a concentration-camp
movie; mostly, it feels like a prison caper yarn that happens to take
place in Sachsenhausen. The film's weight comes from the things we know
about but cannot see within the frame: those haunting images of
emaciated Jews, the walking-dead stares of the prisoners consigned to
the gas chambers and crematoria, the tragedy of systematic genocide.
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A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy, 2009) -
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Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2011)
