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“The Most Precious of Goods” arrives in theaters this Wednesday, November 20.
CINEMA – Recounting the Shoah delicately, without omitting any of its horrors. It’s the (successful) bet of Michel Hazanavicius which, this Wednesday, November 20, returns to movie theater with his new film, a first animated feature film baptized The most valuable commodity.
His story, which takes us to Poland in the middle of the Second World War, is that of “poor lumberjack” And “poor lumberjack”. Several years after the early loss of their child, poor lumberjack still dreams of only one thing: becoming a mother again.
One fine day, as she passes by the railway on which the train that takes Jews to the death camps runs daily, she hears a noise. It’s a cry. Not just any one. These are baby cries. There, in the snow. He was thrown from a train car mid-flight by his father. Poor woodcutter doesn’t hesitate for a second before picking him up and bringing him home.
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A decision which does not seem to be to her husband’s taste. This little girl is the child of a Jew, a “heartless”as he calls them. There’s no way she’s going to stay home. “ If the gods of the train entrusted me with this merchandise, it was not so that it would die. She will live »retorts poor woodcutter, determined to raise him.
At what price? In the anti-Semitic context of Europe in the 1940s, a poor lumberjack, illiterate and penniless, will have to face a series of harsh ordeals with his adopted daughter, while in the extermination camp where he was sent, the father The child’s biological life is experiencing the worst nightmare.
In memory of the Righteous
Presented at the last Cannes Film Festival, this adaptation of the eponymous novel by Jean-Claude Grumberg depicts many of the atrocities of the Shoah. Be careful, you have to stand in front of the drawings of horrified dead bodies piling on top of each other. The sadness and distress of the deported Jews are not evaded. Neither did some of the most racist speeches of the era.
But The most valuable commodity don’t limit yourself to that. It’s a tale. “ It’s not a story about horror, or about camps, it transcends thatestimates the director in the production notes. It is a movement from darkness towards light, it is a luminous story, which reveals the best that man – and above all woman – has. »
He specifies: “ It is a life drive. And if the film calls us to remember something or someone, it is the Righteous. These men and women who saved lives at the risk of their own. It is them that the film celebrates. » Michel Hazanavicius does not intend to work on memory, but says he is proud to promote “ a film that carries a humanist, peaceful and peaceful voice “.
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