2008
November 2008
Sunday 9 November 2008
Sun 9 Nov, 8:15 pm. 1001 Watertown Street, West Newton, 02465. Sara Rubin, 617-244-9899, info@bjff.org. Boston Jewish Film Festival - [events]
8:15 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre The great Jeanne Moreau stars in this latest feature film by director Amos Gitaï, arguably Israel’s most prolific, internationally acclaimed, and profound filmmaker. It is Paris, 1987, and as the televised trial of the “Butcher of Lyon” Gestapo leader Klaus Barbie grips the nation, a son (Hippolyte Girardot from Rashevski’s Tango) tries to persuade his Jewish mother (Moreau) to recount her wartime experiences. Also starring Emmanuelle Devos (Two Lives Plus One, Read My Lips) as Moreau’s daughter-in-law.