The Rape of Europa (2007)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 38 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 4
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Adolf Hitler spent years struggling to establish himself as an artist before his political ambitions rose to the surface and he brought the Nazi Party to power in Germany, and documentary filmmakers Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham, and Bonni Cohen offer a unique perspective on how Hitler's aesthetic viewpoint may have affected his nation's actions during World War II. The Rape of Europa examines the artistic tastes of Hitler and his leading advisors, and how they looted many of the great museums
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Joan Allen
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All Critics (46) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (8)
That Hitler was mad is well known. That he was mad about art, not so well.
Top CriticThe Rape of Europa, an engrossing film based on Lynn Nicholas' 1995 book of the same name, offers a fascinating new perspective on an era that sometimes seems as if it has no more secrets.
It's long for a documentary, almost two hours, but it has a big story to tell.
This is a vast subject, ideally suited to a series of films. It's at its most moving when focusing on the small stories of individual artworks taken from their owners and restored to the families decades later.
As thorough as the movie is, it could easily devote another hour to cases like this.
There is a heart-rending feeling to this documentary, in part due to its sense of irretrievable loss.
Outstanding documentary on the theft and destruction of European masterpieces up to and during WWII.
A fascinating history lesson about a generally-overshadowed aspect of the Second World War.
A sometimes intriguing, sometimes maddening essay in the realm of informational overkill.
The Rape of Europa boasts a strong narration by Joan Allen as it explores a less familiar aspect of World War II and the legacy left by the Nazis.
The Rape of Europa is conventionally made, but it doesn't need cinematic sizzle because it's packed with so many fascinating factoids.
The directors might have benefited by going smaller %u2014 for instance, focusing on two or three pieces of lost artwork and tracing their history. This art documentary simply isn't artful enough.
It's a compelling journey into a soul-chilling past that might not be fully sorted out for generations to come.
Its lack of both style and focus keeps it from being a success as a feature film.
The Rape of Europa presents iconic images that viewers who aren't schooled in European art will recognize. That's a good way to connect with the film and understand the enormity of the pillage by Hitler and his cronies.
The movie's three directors sap the drama out of the story with slow pacing, a dispassionate accumulation of facts and a too-dry narration by Joan Allen.
Narrated by Joan Allen, the film is a remarkably comprehensive look at the cultural destruction that accompanied the slaughter.
(T)his dense, dynamic documentary... takes on the high drama and difficult moral quandaries of Adolf Hitler's campaign to plunder the great artworks of Europe...
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