Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Pasazerka (1963)

English title: The Passenger

A woman who had been a supervisor at Auschwitz meets, while aboard a cruise ship, another woman who had been an inmate in that camp. She tells the story of the two of them to her husband, in two versions.

The director died before completing the film, other persons edited the material inserting stills for the parts not finished. The result is interesting, although I cannot glimpse a great film coming of it had the original filmmaker lived to complete it. I cannot say I understood everything in it, and am not sure it is possible to understand everything. Liza's motivations are hard to fathom, and the same could be said for her feelings.

Rating: 56

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