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Michel Hazanavicius Defends Holocaust Animated Film ‘The Most Precious Of Cargoes’ At Cannes
Michel Hazanavicius said that when it came to making his Holocaust feature The Most Precious of Cargoes “the question didn’t even arise” when making it animated. “I would never want to make a live film on this.” The Artist Oscar winner adapted from the Jean-Claude Grumberg novel. The story follows a poor woodcutter and his […]
The Screen Daily review wrote, “The worst decision comes in a late sequence showing still, stylized black and white images of the faces of the Auschwitz dead: hellish visions that are crassly coercive in their attempt to elicit stunned horror. There is a difference between the graphic representation of such images in documentary and their decorative amplification here — in sharp contrast with those films, notably last year’s Competition standout The Zone of Interest, they have reminded us of the artistic power, and the ethical decency of not showing.” Hazanavicius said he felt that animation lent itself to portraying a hard subject versus a live-version: “You don’t have to ask people to pretend that they are departees, that they are going to die.”
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