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"I was 12 years old. I loved chocolate ice cream and hated cabbage. We were an average Belgian family. But if you looked closely, we weren't quite like other families." So begins the story of Michel Kichka's Jewish family. He plays pranks on his younger brother Charly, teases his sister, who can't wait to get out of her parents' sight, and talks back to his mother at the dinner table. It introduces us to the environment of the Jewish community in a Belgian town in 1959. Through his childlike perspective, he also tries to figure out what it means when people talk about his father's stay in a war camp. What does the number on his forearm mean? What scared him when their tickets were checked on the train? What happened in a place called Auschwitz? This animated film is another cinematic reflection on the Holocaust. (Zlín Film Festival)
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Another film from the market in Cannes whose closing credits outshine everything that came before. In the case of this biopic about a cartoonist’s coming of age and his relationship with his estranged father, who is a Holocaust survivor, the credits feature the subject’s original caricature drawings, which further put the generic visuals of this animated film to shame. Beyond that, My Father’s Secrets is a sad testament to the validity of the rule that little can reveal the creative powerlessness to express oneself through cinematic means such as a voiceover. In the end, the film is a poorly paced, unimaginative and unoriginal illustration of the work on which it’s based. [screening with English dubbing at the Marché du Film in Cannes]
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