(A24 via AP)In Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II. “Occupied City,” which A24 releases in theaters Dec. 25, includes no archival footage or talking heads. The film is rooted in Stigter’s illustrated book “Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945),” which likewise catalogued the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam and the methodical murdering of its Jewish citizens. Though “Occupied City" touches on monuments and museums to the Holocaust, its imagery mostly lingers on the thriving life of a city. And sometimes you find it.”The length of “Occupied City,” which is playing with an intermission, encourages rumination.

Source: The Nation December 21, 2023 14:36 UTC