2016 · drama · history
Denial
Directed by Mick Jackson1h 49m2016
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Our read: Denial (2016) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
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