Perhaps the film needed that, perhaps it didn’t and I have to admit I also wasn’t entirely sure about Mirren’s readings in which she will often catch her breath with emotion. It periodically imagines a young woman travelling by rail all over Europe to various historical sites, ending in Amsterdam, posting pictures and thoughts on Instagram, hashtagging key phrases.
It is a film that is targeted at younger people with what is perhaps an educational mission, and with this in mind there is a connecting-thread motif. T he 75th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation has been marked by this heartfelt and valuable documentary, presented on camera by Helen Mirren, centring on the Anne Frank story (Mirren is shown in a reconstruction of Anne’s secret room in the Amsterdam house, and reading from her diaries) but also bringing in testimony from many current Holocaust survivors, and their families, as well as talking to archivists and historians.
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