This movie was part of a group of movies that Nat and I watched during the Jewish Film Festival. It is a documentary, a very long...a very, very long documentary about Jewish people in France over the past hundred years.
Essentially, it started around the the First World War and finished within the past few years, I believe 2004 or 2005. I found this it interesting. Firstly, I have to acknowledge that it was great to listen to the movie in French - it was a great way to practice my understanding of the language and I was so happy for Nat, that reading the subtitles didn't bother me. Yay Nat!
The film details the amount of varying Anti Semitism in France over the past century. There were times were Jewish settlers fit nicely into French society and of course other times were they were being brutally and unfairly prosecuted.
Coming from European descent, I have always had an interest in the Holocaust and how it had directly affected my family. I was expecting a difficult movie to watch filled with war atrocities, but it wasn't. There was a part of the film which covered that area, but the movie wasn't consumed by it. I appreciated that. It made the whole experience a little easier to swallow.
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