Average Rating: 7.3/10
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Average Rating: 7.6/10
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A psychological adventure that follows two European Jews who survived Nazism and revisit Europe for a tour of their past. Seventy-seven-year-old Jan Wiener and seventy-two-year-old Arnost Lustig escaped concentration camps and managed to flee Europe, only after losing their families. Now the two men return to visit the Czech Republic, and while making peace with their difficult pasts manage to keep each other company.
Aug 24, 2001 Wide
Nov 19, 2002
First Run Features
All Critics (24) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (1)
No larger aspect of what is in this film can be new to us; but seeing it in this old-friends perspective gives all of it, familiar and new, a novel effect.
What unfolds onscreen is remarkable: The passions and arguments of the past are resurrected in the present.
Reminds us that different people react to madness -- in this case, the Holocaust -- in different ways.
Spending time with these guys is an invigorating treat.
Even if these guys hadn't each gone through so much strife and real tragedy in their life, they're just interesting right now to see them going back and forth.
Less a document of wartime experience than of the mentality one needs to maintain in order to be a fighter, and the danger of attacking, however benignly, cherished beliefs.
'A humanistic piece about how the Holocaust, fascism, and the Second World War left permanent emotional scars on everyone who lived through it.'
Enthralling.
Bar-Lev's intimacy with his subjects is remarkable, and it allows him to reveal how these men have managed to become and remain friends.
It's a rarity these days: a film that will leave you thinking.
The fight and its aftermath don't provide an especially satisfying conclusion to the piece.
Even though I'm not sure it should have even been made, the final product is at least emotionally impressive and absolutely debate inspiring.
Not surprisingly, it's moving; but it's also endlessly engaging, uproariously funny at moments, informative, and eventually touching in ways one might not have expected.
A tale of a remarkable friendship between two wise, witty men.
Even when the bickering diminishes the impact of the story, Wiener himself makes Fighter another interesting story to come out of World War II atrocities.
A fascinating meditation on the nature of heroism and survival.
Fascinating and complex documentary about the road trip undertaken by two Holocaust survivors back to the sites that defined their lives. Amir Bar-Lev's (My Kid Could Paint That, The Tillman Story) first film.
April 11, 2011The Fighter is a raw emotive experience that get you Shadow Boxing in the theatre "wow" brilliant performance by Walhberg and Bale...if you are a movielover its the must see film of the year and my wife loved the film and mark of course....
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