2020 · war · history · drama
Resistance
Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz2h 0m2020
The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
Our read: Resistance (2020) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded war · history · drama entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured war / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
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How Resistance feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want WWII resistance drama centered on mime, courage, and rescued children.”
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