La traversée

I Just finished a fabulous film, just what I was looking for. A Norwegian film: Flukten Over Grensen (The Crossing 2020) about three Norwegian children who try and help two Norwegian Jewish children escape across the border to Sweden. I loved it, just what I needed was a lot of childlike sweetness in the face of brutality and terror. If I had to choose between rewatching Schindler's List, and this film, I would choose this one.

I would also like to draw attention to the perfect performance by the unknown child actress who played Sarah, Bianca Ghilardi-Hellste and Greda played by Anna Sofie Skarholt. It has been a very long time since I have seen such sweetness in a relationship on film.

Note that the terror and brutality are not graphic, there are no massacres, no machine-gunning. But the children know what awaits them if they make an error, and as real life children do, they make plenty of them.

American films have got to be pretty bad. I haven't cheered one in months. They seem cold and most often depend on violence and other dystopian action. A rare find, I cheered this movie.