A deceptively elegant visual portrait of the popular Dutch city by the ’12 Years a Slave’ helmer has a dark narration that ties Nazi horrors to a precarious present. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau ...
Working from a book by his wife, Dutch filmmaker Bianca Stigter, the '12 Years a Slave' helmer explores his adopted city in the ’40s and today. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic She ...
In cinematic form, how do you tell history without archive footage? Occupied City shows how it can be done, and to what effect. Steve McQueen’s audacious documentary, which premiered at Cannes on ...
The Nazis and their accomplices murdered three quarters of the Netherland’s Jews. For five years — from 1940 to 1945 — a Nazi occupation impacted every facet of Dutch life and fostered intricate ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joanne Shurvell writes about travel, food, culture and fashion. This film is meant to be an immersive experience not a history ...
Steve McQueen layers an oral history of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam over footage from the city's COVID lockdown in a patience-testing documentary that may have worked better as an installation piece. A ...
Steve McQueen bridges the past horrors of Nazi-era Amsterdam with a threatening present-day extremism in the trailer for Occupied City, a four-hour documentary from the 12 Years a Slave helmer ...
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