{"id":3954,"date":"2009-03-06T01:29:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T09:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2009-03-13T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T18:50:18","slug":"night-and-fog-alain-resnais-1955-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=3954","title":{"rendered":"Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955): France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Holocaust has since been explored in other documentaries and in fictional films, but Alain Resnais\u2019 1955 documentary, Night and Fog<\/a><\/em>, was one of the earliest, and finest, attempts to make sense of the senselessness that occurred in the Nazi concentration camps.<\/p>\n

Mixing new color footage of the deserted camps, archival footage, and still photographs, Resnais takes us on a journey through the concentration camps that stand shunned, despised, and ignored–relics too horrible to contemplate.\u00a0 Narrated by writer Jean Cayrol, a camp survivor himself, we are informed of the daily torment, suffering and struggle of the Jews, and the malicious, stupefying, and disturbing inhumanity of the Nazis.\u00a0 The film progresses from early deportation to the camps, role calls, early humiliations, Nazi procedures, daily struggles, various atrocities, and finally, extermination.<\/p>\n

An insightful and sobering film, it brings you face to face with the atrocities that were committed \u00a0so matter of factly, and\u00a0on a daily basis, by the Nazis.\u00a0 Obviously filled with disturbing images which include many of the dead and dying, it is not an easy viewing experience, as it stirs strong feelings of sympathy, anger, disgust and many more.\u00a0 The strength of the film is that it does not simply rely on the fact of millions of Jews murdered, but takes us through detailed experience of their struggles, fears, and suffering through attention to the smaller details in the footage and the photographs, descriptions of the experiences such as the false sense of a hospital portrayed by the Nazis where the sick were unnecessarily operated on and used for experiments.\u00a0\u00a0 These scenes and many others work to bring to light the realities of what haunts these abandoned camps.\u00a0 Resnais’ film is a powerful study of what happened and, if we ignore it, what could someday happen again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD. The Holocaust has since been explored in other documentaries and in fictional films, but Alain Resnais\u2019 1955 documentary, Night and Fog, was one of the earliest, and finest, attempts to make sense of the senselessness that occurred in the Nazi concentration camps. Mixing new color footage of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,67,3,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-dvd","category-films","category-short-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}