Mirren herself seemed to have pretty much dialled in her performance, a combination of overacting and not very believable emoting. This was effective in evoking the claustrophobia of life in the annex but seemed a little unnecessary.
Anne frank the part when the get the cake movie#
Helen Mirren narrated and linked various parts of the movie from what was said to be an exact reproduction of Anne Frank's bedroom, if you've ever been to the Frank house you'll know that the annexe is kept mostly empty at the wishes of Otto Frank. One survivor particularly moved me when she said "Our revenge against the Nazis is our children". This was moving and very well done, with each woman drawing parallels between what had happened in their childhoods and the rise, encouragement, and acceptance of racism and bigotry we see now. The heart of the movie was interviews with five women Holocaust survivors of the same age as Anne Frank would be now. That said I found the movie pretty shallow and in many ways annoying.
First thing to remember is that it's directed at teenagers so it's not going to be quite as in-depth as something like Shoah, the gold-standard for Holocaust documentaries. Last night I went to see the movie documentary #Anne Frank: Parallel Stories (the hash tag is part of the title). TLDR If you want to watch a holocaust documentary that makes you feel detached from the events, this is it. Just the stories these women have to tell.
Anne frank the part when the get the cake how to#
The people behind this do not understand how to tell this story in a way that has impact and that does it justice.I wish someone would take the footage from the interviews with the survivors and edit it into a new documentary. Instead the main focus seems to be on showcasing Helen Mirren and doing some sort of modern teenage-friendly twist on Anne's story that no one asked for, with survivor accounts haphazardly thrown into the mix. Let us hear the survivors tell their stories. I'm prevented from feeling anything other than frustration.
Then there's of course the zombie-like teenager with her insincere hashtags. Harrowing details and facts are recounted all matter-of-factly and stripped of their impact, and details that should be shared by the survivors themselves are for some reason retold by Mirren or some historian no one cares about. We are presented with gripping survivor accounts and harrowing archive footage, but they're constantly interrupted by Helen Mirren (who has no connection to the story, yet is given as much screen-time as one of the survivors) overdramatically reading from Anne's diary. I didn't think I could watch a documentary about the holocaust without crying.
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