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Documentarian Claude Lanzmann brings the ghosts of the Holocaust back to vivid life once again The Last of the Unjust, a dense and haunting investigation into complicity and moral quandary.
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The running time (like all Lanzmann's films) is not oppressive but allows for Murmelstein and his interlocutor to talk through, around and inside the context and reality of pragmatism, egoism, heroism and evil. April 4, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The running time (like all Lanzmann's films) is not oppressive but allows for Murmelstein and his interlocutor to talk through, around and inside the context and reality of pragmatism, egoism, heroism and evil.
D.W. Mault
Claude Lanzmann has created a new film whose heart is the interview footage shot for his monumental "Shoah" project of Austrian Benjamin Murmelstein, the so-called last of the Jewish Elders, those nominally in charge of the Nazis' Jewish ghettos. November 16, 2017 | Full Review…
Claude Lanzmann has created a new film whose heart is the interview footage shot for his monumental "Shoah" project of Austrian Benjamin Murmelstein, the so-called last of the Jewish Elders, those nominally in charge of the Nazis' Jewish ghettos.
Daniel Kasman
The Last of the Unjust breaks with the rigorous approach its director previously employed to find a just way to talk about the Nazis' mass murder of the Jews with film. October 2, 2017 | Full Review…
The Last of the Unjust breaks with the rigorous approach its director previously employed to find a just way to talk about the Nazis' mass murder of the Jews with film.
Christoph Huber
To some degree, the force of The Last of the Unjust is delivered in spite of Lanzmann's laxness as a filmmaker. April 12, 2016 | Full Review…
To some degree, the force of The Last of the Unjust is delivered in spite of Lanzmann's laxness as a filmmaker.
Michael Atkinson
The best one can say for this troubling, if intermittently fascinating, mess is that it succeeds in raising questions, moral as well as aesthetic, that it cannot answer. December 31, 2015 | Full Review…
The best one can say for this troubling, if intermittently fascinating, mess is that it succeeds in raising questions, moral as well as aesthetic, that it cannot answer.
J. Hoberman
At three and a half hours, this documentary sometimes feels both overlong and far too detailed, but filmmaker Claude Lanzmann knows that this material is vitally important, and by putting it all out there he challenges the viewer to understand the truth. January 12, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
At three and a half hours, this documentary sometimes feels both overlong and far too detailed, but filmmaker Claude Lanzmann knows that this material is vitally important, and by putting it all out there he challenges the viewer to understand the truth.
Rich Cline
Each viewer will judge its truth for themselves, but the director's compassionately unsentimental acceptance is clear and profound. January 11, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Each viewer will judge its truth for themselves, but the director's compassionately unsentimental acceptance is clear and profound.
Mark Kermode
This is a complex and very moving documentary. January 9, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
This is a complex and very moving documentary.
Geoffrey Macnab
The Last of the Unjust is cinema at its very best. January 9, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
The Last of the Unjust is cinema at its very best.
Wendy Ide
Lanzmann draws on unused footage of a 1975 interview in Rome with Viennese rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein to assess his role as the sole surviving member of the Jewish Council installed by the Nazis to help run the Theresienstadt ghetto camp. January 9, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Lanzmann draws on unused footage of a 1975 interview in Rome with Viennese rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein to assess his role as the sole surviving member of the Jewish Council installed by the Nazis to help run the Theresienstadt ghetto camp.
David Parkinson
Haunted and haunting. January 8, 2015 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Haunted and haunting.
Peter Bradshaw
The 89 year-old director has lost none of his bold inquisitiveness in a Shoah follow-up that plunges the viewer deep into the hustle and anguish of the Czech ghetto. January 8, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The 89 year-old director has lost none of his bold inquisitiveness in a Shoah follow-up that plunges the viewer deep into the hustle and anguish of the Czech ghetto.
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