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#Anne Frank Parallel Stories

Original title: #AnneFrank - Parallel Stories
  • 2019
  • 1h 32m
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6.6/10
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Helen Mirren, Anne Frank, Andra Bucci, Tatiana Bucci, Arianna Szorenyi, Helga Weiss, and Sarah Lichtsztejn in #Anne Frank Parallel Stories (2019)
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It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materi... Read allIt is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.

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    • Sabina Fedeli
    • Anna Migotto
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    • Helen Mirren
    • Martina Gatti
    • Andra Bucci
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    • Directors
      • Sabina Fedeli
      • Anna Migotto
    • Stars
      • Helen Mirren
      • Martina Gatti
      • Andra Bucci
    • 43User reviews
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    Helen Mirren
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    Martina Gatti
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    Andra Bucci
    • Self - Survivor
    Tatiana Bucci
    • Self - Survivor
    Sarah Lichtsztejn
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    • (as Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard)
    Helga Weiss
    • Self - Survivor
    Arianna Szorenyi
    • Self - Survivor
    • (as Arianna Szörényi)
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    7pirrello-39383

    Good Movie

    But why the emo girl? She added nothing to the movie.
    5davidlohr

    Could've been better

    I enjoyed listening to the stories told by survivors but found the added dramatization - a teen walking around a museum on her cellphone - unnecessary. It's also not a good film for those unfamiliar with Anne's story. In my opinion, it lacked much of the backstory and jumped around too much.
    5rps-2

    Overdone

    Is this a docu-drama or an exercise in cinematography? The camera work is superb! But it's overdone and too "artsy-dartsy" for a film of this type. It's also far too long. Nor do I understand how Helen Mirren fits in. She is a favourite of mine. But there seems little point in having her (or anybody else) do an on camera narration. Nor, unlike the original movie, this film would be a confusing mystery to anybody not familiar with Anne Frank's story or the grim history of the period.
    7ecroasdell-81208

    A missed opportunity

    Last night I went to see the movie documentary #Anne Frank: Parallel Stories (the hash tag is part of the title). First thing to remember is that it's directed at teenagers so it's not going to be quite as in-depth as something like Shoah, the gold-standard for Holocaust documentaries. That said I found the movie pretty shallow and in many ways annoying. The heart of the movie was interviews with five women Holocaust survivors of the same age as Anne Frank would be now. This was moving and very well done, with each woman drawing parallels between what had happened in their childhoods and the rise, encouragement, and acceptance of racism and bigotry we see now. One survivor particularly moved me when she said "Our revenge against the Nazis is our children".

    Helen Mirren narrated and linked various parts of the movie from what was said to be an exact reproduction of Anne Frank's bedroom, if you've ever been to the Frank house you'll know that the annexe is kept mostly empty at the wishes of Otto Frank. This was effective in evoking the claustrophobia of life in the annex but seemed a little unnecessary. Mirren herself seemed to have pretty much dialled in her performance, a combination of overacting and not very believable emoting. Too much Mirren and not enough narrator.

    The movie's main trope was that of a teenage girl travelling to various places in Western Europe associated with Anne Frank and documenting her feelings on instagram-like social media. The girl had no character whatsoever, the only thing we learn about her is that she likes cake and nose-piercings. Her social-media updates never rose above the level of "I wonder what you were thinking, Anne? #oppression".

    The usual pictures and films of what happened in the camps are, as always, horrifying, and I cried a little during the interviews with the five survivors but overall this was a wasted opportunity. This has been done so much better in other movies and documentaries. I hope this is better received by the target audience than it was by me.

    The most important message from this documentary was that the appeal of fascism and the urge to genocide has never gone away, that it is in fact back with a vengeance. That all those who are horrified by what happened in the Shoah should also be horrified by what's happening now to refugees and immigrants around the world and should draw the parallels between the populism, bigotry, hatred, and nationalism the Nazis parlayed into power and the populism, bigotry, hatred, and nationalism so many of our current governments are also parlaying into power. The witnesses to the Holocaust are nearly all gone now, their history is being rewritten and denied by those whose intentions are evil and it's more important than ever that those witnesses get to speak out now to generations to whom the Holocaust seems to be as far away and irrelevant to their lives as the Spanish Armada.

    Despite my opinion that this movie could have been so much better, if it manages to get that message across to its target audience then it will have served its purpose and that purpose is eminently worthwhile.
    9cowgoesmoo

    Pretty good but with one awkward element

    I saw this a couple nights ago and enjoyed it very much. I particularly liked Helen Mirren's dramatic readings from the diary as well as hearing from Anne's contemporaries and their children/grandchildren, which makes you wonder "what if" she had been able to hold on a couple more months. Many pictures were incorporated that I've never seen before. Something that didn't work for me was the "modern girl" with the Twitter handle "KatherineKat". Since Anne was writing to a fictional "Kitty", this seems to be Kitty writing back and presumably was a modern day equivalent of a diary but using social media instead. Whereas Anne could expound in her diary, a tweet was by it's nature quite limited. I found that aspect a little annoying, but I suppose younger audiences might well have enjoyed it.

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    • Release date
      • March 3, 2020 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
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      • Nexo Digital (Italy)
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