Disappointed

Rating: 2/10 (8 June 2005)

I went to see this movie with pretty high expectations. Polanski has quite a reputation. I felt the film was dull, lacked artistic imagination and its trite presentation of history really disappointing. Apart from the scene with the suitcases, I found the whole thing banal, way too heavy handed and very clichéd. If you are interested in the subject of the film, I recommend you read the following couple of pages from a memoir of the son of a Holocaust survivor at the web address below. In the five minutes you will take to read it you will learn more about this period of history than in the three hours of watching this excruciatingly dreary film. http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=18&ar=1