Films with: Chapuis, Dominique

Mina Tannenbaum

Film that explores the humor, pain, and truths of female friendship. Mousy, introspective Mina and overweight, outgoing Ethel meet at age seven, and for the next 25 years their lives are intimately intertwined until they clash over their careers and the man they both want.

DVD 12524

Shoah

Over a decade in the making, this monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies (of survivors and former Nazis, and other witnesses), employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them. The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait in which the past is always present.

DVD 11957