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Plus Tard (One Day You'll Understand) (Later) (2007)

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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 10
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A middle-aged man studying the Mur des Noms in modern-day France recalls the time 20 years prior when he and his mother were viewing the trial of Klaus Barbie with rapt attention in this introspective drama from director Amos Gitai. The year was 1987, and Rivka lived with her son, Victor, in a disheveled apartment littered with antiques and memorabilia. The opening session in the trial against the so-called "butcher of Lyon" is being televised, and Rivka is struggling to keep her emotions under

Unrated, 1 hr. 29 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Aug 11, 2009

Kino International

All Critics (22) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (7)

[Director] Gitai works here from Jérôme Clément's 2005 book about his mother. He whips something rich and delicate out of the story's dramatic spareness.

July 23, 2009 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
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The intelligence and commitment of One Day You'll Understand can't be doubted, but as drama, the film barely registers.

February 27, 2009 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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The chance to watch the grand Jeanne Moreau is this flat memoir's saving grace.

December 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
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One Day You'll Understand is not exclusively a picture about the Holocaust. It is about a contradiction: human discomfort with some truths and human hunger for them.

November 20, 2008 Full Review Source: New Republic | Comment
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This is not a movie of big, dramatic revelations; in fact, the notionally elusive truth is pretty obvious from the movie's outset, which makes Victor's quest less about facts and more about principles.

November 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | Comment
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Nonetheless, this mesmerizing, flawed, almost Proustian meditation has more to do with the present than the past.

November 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
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Israeli director Amos Gitai can be one of the world's most graceful and effective filmmakers, but he's equally susceptible to ham-fisted episodes, and his new film is one of them.

November 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Despite the back and forth between awkward and moving, unsubtle and touching, Gitai does make a strong case for personal reexaminations of the past.

October 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | Comment
Film-Forward.com

One Day reaches an emotional level well above Gitai's typical remove.

October 30, 2008 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

Accurate in imaging the mystery of man's not fully knowable past, 'One Day You'll Understand' leaves too much distant, unsolved and confused.

October 30, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Comment
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Drama about a French Jewish family's suffering, secrets, and denials regarding Nazi persecution during the French Occupation is an often disorienting collage of memory shards. But the legendary Jeanne Moreau and other excellent cast help hold interest.

October 30, 2008 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

[A] counterintuitive, diligently understated exploration of the legacy of anti-Semitism in a mixed-religion, middle-class French family.

October 29, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

In under 20 minutes of screen time, Jeanne Moreau supplies One Day You'll Understand with an otherwise absent emotional weight of reconciliation to the anguished history of WWII France.

October 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Inert performances, an irritating soundtrack, and the lack of resonance of the 'big secret' combine to make viewing a burden.

October 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Compuserve | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Plus Tard (One Day You'll Understand) (Later)

Directed by Amos Gitai, "One Day You'll Understand" is an intelligent, intriguing but not entirely successful movie set in 1987 around the time of the Klaus Barbie trial. Victor Bastien(Hippolyte Girardot) has a personal stake in the proceedings as his maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust while their daughter

November 17, 2008
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Walter M.

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Directed by Amos Gitai, "One Day You'll Understand" is an intelligent, intriguing but not entirely successful movie set in 1987 around the time of the Klaus Barbie trial. Victor Bastien(Hippolyte Girardot) has a personal stake in the proceedings as his maternal grandparents died in the Holocaust while their daughter

November 17, 2008
Harlequin68
Walter M.

Super Reviewer

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