One of the most memorable and haunting documentaries of the Holocaust. Night And Fog movie 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.
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.
Film is 31 minutes long. Shot in Eastmancolor.
Night And Fog Reviews:
"Poetic, clear-eyed, calm yet harrowing..." -- Danny Leigh, Uncut
"Resnais' exposure of Nazi atrocities is still chilling, and his emphasis on the need to remember gives the film a continuing relevance. " -- Brad Stevens, Sight and Sound
"Resnais's approach is so stark that its power hasn't abated. "-- Michael Brooke, Sight and Sound
Fascinating and Terrifying.... Resnais has put together a truly horrific and surreal vision of the holocaust using actual footage from the camps at Auschwitz and Dachau. The narration is more poetry than simple dialogue... Truly a work of art. He has captured the atrocity in a way that newer films such as the Pianist or Schindler's List could never even hope to accomplish. This movie is not for those with weak stomachs, however - this is about as graphic as a war documentary gets. Resnais blinds you with the horrible reality of the final solution, and reminds all of us to be on our guard to ensure that such a travesty does not occur again... By marsden_catherine
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Strong documentary This movie has some of the most powerful images of the Holocaust I've ever seen. Not for everyone, though... By jaime_s_ferreira
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