Moving + doesn't put a foot wrong

Rating: 8/10 (11 September 2008)

You don't often sit in a BAFTA screening and hear weeping behind you but even the most hardened cineaste would be moved by this look at the holocaust through an Aryan child's eyes.
It is beautifully scripted, acted and shot too - with none of the anachronisms of taste and language that bedevil historically-set films such as The Duchess.
A small, British movie with an unusual take on a ghastly and well-worn subject.
PS - for parents: It's a 12A in Britain and I wouldn't take a child under about eleven. Nor would I let them go alone.