Night and Fog - Criterion Collection Streaming
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Night and Fog - Criterion Collection Streaming.
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I first saw “Night and Fog” in a 16mm format when I was a senior in high school in 1970. So powerful and devastating was the imagery of this extraordinary short documentary, that it took me another 30 years to be able to watch other films on the Holocaust, such as “Schindler’s List.” When I saw “Night and Fog,” I said to myself, “No other film needs to be made about the Holocaust. This is the definitive film.” The stark, black and white images are devastating and powerful. In reading about the availability the film on video, I was astonished to see that the film had been made in 1955, so soon after the war. In the ensuing 45 years, it has lost none of its potency. For me, this is still the film that set the standard for all subsequent work on the Holocaust. Resnais’ treatment of this subject will still burn the images right onto your retina.
I have since seen other films depicting the Holocaust, including “Schindler’s List” and “Life is Beautiful,” both of which were excellent. But “Night and Fog” is still the one work that will shake you to your marrow. I visited the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem in the late 70’s, and the emotional experience was identical to and of the same wrenching caliber as watching “Night and Fog.”
Truth is truth. We need to look at it, even when it would be more comfortable to turn away. Thank God someone like Resnais had the courage to tell the truth of the Holocaust in a ruthless and inescapable way that holds us all accountable. “Night and Fog” should give us all the courage to call evil by its name out loud when we see it, and to stand together to stop it.
This should be required viewing for everyone.
Alain Resnais’s short, lasting a mere 31 minutes, is justifably famous as the first film to explore the Holocaust after the Second World War (it was released in 1955). More than just a depiction of the events, the film primarily concerned with the filmmaker’s inability to convey the historical reality of the event. The colorful scenes Resnais shot of the abandoned camps are contrasted with horrific black-and-white images of Nazi brutality - decapitated skulls gathered in a bucket, a mountain of womens’ hair, the living skeletons of the newly-liberated camps - and Resnais asks himself (and us): how can we possibly comprehend, in the safety of being a spectator, the immeasurable inhumanity and suffering of this event? What would it profit us or history as a whole even if we could? Would it really prevent human atrocities from recurring?
The film is best seen as a philosophical exploration rather than a history lesson - indeed, if you don’t know at least the key events of the Nazi Regime, you’ll find Resnais’ elisions confusing. It is still a potent and unsettling film and, within its mere 31 minutes, opened up questions about artistic responsibility and representation that persist today about the Holocaust and other filmed depictions of human atrocities.
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