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Facing the Phantoms

  • January 2009
  • 1hr

    39mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Jean-Louis Comolli,

    Starring

    Sylvie Lindeperg,

    French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.