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La Raffle?

Posted by RGA on December 12, 2018 at 02:19:12:
Surely not this mess of a motion picture?

"While the film emphasizes that the majority of the deported Jews were eventually murdered, its ending is utterly false and manipulative. Without giving away details, the film mitigates the tragedy by sparing the cutest characters. A viewer who knew nothing of the true events of World War II would think there was a guardian angel that looked out for sweet young children. If you find that proposition more than a little infuriating, then you'd be wise to skip this film." By Hannah Brown

"Director Rose Bosch's intentions seem genuine, but her dramatizations frequently undermine the horrific real-life events on which they're based." Drew Hunt

"A well-meaning but inexpertly dramatized account of the roundup of 13,000 Parisian Jews in the summer of 1942." Jeannette Catsoulis

"The utter hopelessness experienced by European Jewry is never hinted at, and in its way this betrays the Holocaust story." John Anderson

"Bosch bizarrely intercuts scenes of Hitler, Himmler, and Hess working out the logistics of the exportations, in vignettes that smack of Inglourious Basterds farce ..." Andrew Schenker

"A big, sorrowful, dramatically trite period epic about a bleak chapter in the history of modern France." Ty Burr

Alas, the film's other half, involving the back-and-forth between the monstrous Nazis and the weasels of Vichy France over the exact conditions and procedures of the mass arrests, are unconvincing historical re-
enactments. The dialogue is laughably portentous, and if the depictions of Vichy heads Marshal P�tain and Pierre Laval are overly broad, Udo Schenk's raving Adolf Hitler is ridiculous, an unintentionally comic sideshow that makes clear Bosch's mistake in aspiring for grand-scale sweep over the wrenching, personal tragedies of Vel d'Hiv. Stan Hall

Yes this is Victor's idea of a better film with a much better director lol. I swear I am going to see Eleven at the grocery store stealing Eggos tomorrow.