Alain Resnais's half-hour documentary on the Nazi concentration camps, juxtaposing past and present. The present, where the camp sites look like ghost towns, is done in tranquil, richly colored, lyrical passages; the past, where the ghosts themselves spring back to life, is done in colorless, nightmarish newsreel footage. The subject matter is so potent that the movie might appear to be more facile than it is. Very subdued and reflective; shrewdly written by Jean Cayrol. (1956) — Duncan Shepherd
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