Title : Shoah - Claude Lanzmann - book

• Summary

It is not easy to talk about the Shoah. There is magic in this film, and the magic cannot be explained. After the war, we read countless testimonies about the ghettos and the extermination camps; we were devastated. But, watching Claude Lanzmann's extraordinary film today, we realize that we knew nothing. Despite all our knowledge, the terrible experience remained at a distance from us. For the first time, we live it in our heads, in our hearts, our flesh. It becomes ours. Neither fiction nor documentary, Shoah succeeds in this recreation of the past with an astonishing economy of means: places, voices, faces. Claude Lanzmann's great art is to make places speak, to resurrect them through voices, and, beyond words, to express the unspeakable through faces. (...) Claude Lanzmann's construction does not obey a chronological order; I would say - if one can use this word about such a subject - that it is a poetic construction. I would never have imagined such an alliance of horror and beauty. Certainly, one does not serve to mask the other, it is not a question of aesthetics: on the contrary, it highlights it with such invention and rigor that we are aware of contemplating a great work. A pure masterpiece.

• EAN : 9782070403783
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