Resistance 2020

The best way to resist is to survive.

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7.0 / 10   405 vote(s)
R
War History Drama

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

Homepage https://www.ifcfilms.com/films/resistance
Release Date 2020-03-27
Runtime 2h 0m
Directors Jonathan Jakubowicz, M.I. Littin-Menz, Benedict Hoermann, Pavel Vojtisek, Alex Gavigan
Producers Christian Angermayer, Nik Bower, Christelle Conan, Frank Kusche, Thorsten Schumacher, Lars Sylvest, Stephanie Hayward-Schneider, Matthias Schweighöfer, Simon Happ, Deepak Nayar, Nicolas Paalzow, Nicolas Sandler, Klemens Hallmann, Wei Han, Stephanie Schettler-Köhler, Patrick Zorer, Carlos Garcia de Paredes, Dan Maag, Marco Beckmann, Marc Grewe, Jonathan Jakubowicz, Claudine Jakubowicz, Silvia Schmidt, Pavel Šolc
Writer Jonathan Jakubowicz

The film spends so much time moving Mangel from one place to another and having self-reflective moments with his co-stars that the film fails to really highlight his accomplishments or how he actually achieved them. Instead, it favours grandiose characters, weak attempts at tension, false love interests and incomplete arcs. Yet another case of when great stories happen to not-so-great filmmakers. Marcel Mangel and Marcel Marceau deserve better. - Jess Fenton

Read Jess' full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-resistance-oy-vey-an-insult-to-a-hero-and-a-genius

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