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Night and Fog|Criterion Collection

Night and Fog

Criterion Collection
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Overview

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 images to stand on their own: a grainy, back-lit hill of human hair, a pyramid of shoes.

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Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Color Format: B&W
  • UPC: 715515181518
  • Genre: DOCUMENTARY
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Release Date: July 2016

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
One of the most memorable and haunting documentaries of the Holocaust. 10 years after the liberation of the Nazi death camps, director Alain Resnais visits the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. As the camera roams through and peers into the now-empty buildings, Resnais contrasts the seeming peacefulness of the landscape with archival images from the violent past.

Notes:
Film is 31 minutes long. Shot in Eastmancolor.

Reviews:
"Poetic, clear-eyed, calm yet harrowing..." - 02/01/2005 Uncut, p.106


"Resnais' exposure of Nazi atrocities is still chilling, and his emphasis on the need to remember gives the film a continuing relevance." - 04/01/2005 Sight and Sound, p.84


"Resnais's approach is so stark that its power hasn't abated." - 10/01/2011 Sight and Sound

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