Better with age

Rating: 10/10 (28 November 2016)

There's not much to say about this film that hasn't already been said.
So I'll just add that this film actually got better with age. It's some 20 years since I last saw it and I'd forgotten much of it. My memory (faulty) had 'the list' playing a more prominent role in the film (from a screen-time standpoint). And while the list is the vehicle to the film's denouement, it is the film's ability to get us into the Krakow Ghetto, to get us standing beside and inside the atrocities, that makes the film a masterpiece. T
Think of a documentary, think of how moved you are by the recitation and depiction of the facts of the Holocaust. Then add to that the fictive characters' lives that underscore each of the film's scenes and well, you're beyond moved.
One can quibble with the final cemetery scene.
And, in fact, I did when I first saw it.
But not this time.