A start has made
5:30 PM: and then there was the line. Used to the chaotic mess of people for the start of a movie at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the smaller brother of TIFF, I was totally surprised by that tidy line of waiting people, half an hour before the start already far around the corner of the block from Church Street.
My first movie of the festival was an impressive, touching one, Plus Tard, je comprendas of the Israeli director Amos Gitai. It was a classic movie about the great drama of the 20th century in the context of a French/Jewish family , based on the autobiography of Jérôme Cléments, president of Arte, the European cultural TV Channel.
Most impressing in the movie was what not been said: about the choices made in the famliy, about the Holocaust. And the image of almost childlike happy German and French policemen and soldiers, finding what there where looking for in a small French village in the Vichy- south: an older Jewish couple, says more about the madness of mankind then other images with brutal violence.
Grand old lady Jeanne Moreau, 80 now, played the role of the Jewish (grand) mother in an very convincing way, showing all the dilemmas of those who survived the Holocaust.
