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Les Violons Du Bal [VHS]

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This movie takes place in both the past and present. The present is done in black and white, while the past is in color. This is a movie about a director who is working through his experiences as a child. During WWII, he and his mother were Jews living in Paris who slowly lost all their rights and eventually fled. He grapples with thier experiences and his life with his wife and child. It's fascinating, although sometimes difficult to follow. There is a lot of transcutting and are many shifts in time. This is a great film if your'e looking for something less ordinary as well as highly symbolic and meaningful.

The contrasting visuals of a technicolor film (which takes place in the auteur's past) and a film about him trying to make that same film (shot not in black-and-white but in video) are combined brilliantly in this movie. Much humor is derived from the "business aspects" of making a film about his Jewish family's life in France before and during the time Nazis occupied it. This is a story about Western European Jews (much like German Jews) and it differs a lot from the Eastern European stories. An astounding film by a genius filmmaker.