06 October 2009

Night and Fog (1955)


Man, what a not fun movie to watch right before you go to sleep. I maybe didn't know what this movie was about, only that it was directed by Alain Resnais -- a dude who directed another movie I like. Anyway, I found out this was maybe the first Holocaust documentary made. It's only 30 minutes, but it's incredibly powerful and disturbing. Although he does show a bit of film footage, Resnais mostly uses stills and narration to reveal the horrors of concentration camps.

Very disturbing, very worth watching, very insomnia-causing.

4/5 pizzas

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