Facing the Phantoms

Facing the Phantoms

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2009

Runtime

1h 39m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Face aux fantômes

Director

Jean-Louis Comolli

Description

French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.