Unrated, 1 hr. 49 min.
Drama
Directed By: Margarethe von Trotta
Written By: Margarethe von Trotta, Pam Katz
In Theaters: May 29, 2013 Limited
Box Office:$0.2M
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This movie was interesting and engaging to me. Great look at her thoughts and intentions, as well as a less sympathetic but fair look at the hatred she garnered... this movie could have been great perhaps with a larger budget? All of the german actors were great, but the americans were god awful...
The film's point is made in the contrast of staunch stick-to-her-guns individual Hannah Arendt as against the personality-less bureaucratic Nazi official.
The film's most striking quality, and it's not insignificant, is director Margarethe von Trotta's refusal to fossilize the controversies she dramatizes.
The chick flick gets a magnificent makeover, so to speak, for something other than the usual sex and romance. Delving into the intellectual life of the defiant philosopher and provocative theorist of the 'banality of evil, as politically potent today.
Veteran German director Margarethe von Trotta has perhaps her strongest film to date with Hannah Arendt, yet another of her works about historically important women. Also notable is the superb cast led by Barbara Sukowa.
While it could easily be shorter and move a bit faster, especially at the beginning, it appears to move at a speed that's true to the heroine's thought process...If this portrait is true to Arendt, then let it stand.
Forceful portrayal by Sukowa humanizes an intellectual whose persona is remembered as grim as her philosophical observations. . . without her key controversial claims.
Sukowa, who is very appealing in some personal moments in the film, makes Arendt strong in a cool, logical, but humanly unrealistic position.
It's involving, as biopics go, but the shattering debates that still swirl around Arendt's view of the Holocaust are relegated to walk-ons.
