A Good German

Rating: 9/10 (26 October 2019)

A fascinating, moving, funny, multi-layered movie experience. Memorable. Not really a satire or a comedy. Wonderful set decoration and attention to period clothes. Many surprising twists and turns done with style and imagination and, despite the war and Nazis, gentleness. A Wes Anderson-esque examination of the effect of fanaticism and war on a society, a town, on families, on children and on one particular sweet little boy. The end, which could have been saccharine, over the top, or forced...perfect instead. With a perfect soundtrack sending us out of the theater, but making sure that JoJo, and his mom, a good German, will live on in our imaginations.