A thoughtful, creative, and disturbing way to treat the numbness of Holocaust and genocide fatigue, through striking images of a man's bizarre transformation and obsession.
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12/07/08
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The Memory Thief (2008)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:11
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.6/10
Reviews for The Memory Thief
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There are intriguing issues swirling around the film, but [director] Kofman never brings it to a boil, never finds the deeper, truer meaning inside the ideas he is grappling with.
05/30/08
Top CriticThe film deserves qualified praise.
05/14/08
Director Gil Kofman's attempt is noble in trying to show this descent into madness, but something rings false.
05/09/08
Top CriticWhile the film tends to talk over itself in its attempt to say all it needs to say on the subject, his film's uncompromisingly bleak vision is a bracing alternative.
05/09/08
In The Memory Thief, a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past.
05/09/08
Top CriticAnother case study delving into the hubris and insult of trying too hard to feel someone else's pain.
05/09/08
The film is (perhaps deliberately) as unbalanced as its protagonist, one whose fury ultimately seems directed either nowhere in particular or in too many directions at once -- until things eventually devolve into a Taxi Driver riff.
05/07/08
Top CriticKofman includes real-life Holocaust survivors in his cast, a bold and unsettling stroke in a fictional story that's more challenging than most documentaries about the subject.
05/07/08
Top CriticThe Memory Thief, the first narrative feature by Gil Kofman, grants intimate entrance into a needy person's life -- a life bent around the facts of the darkest hours of the 20th century.
03/28/08
Tragedy and closure, memory and truth are the subjects of writer/director Gil Kofman's first narrative feature.
03/20/08
Top CriticA Holocaust movie with quite an original twist--about a tollbooth collector who imagines himself to be a survivor of Nazi horrors.
03/19/08
The deeply felt performances from [Mark] Webber and Jerry Adler overwhelm the film about a young man whose way of connecting to others is to mirror them.
04/20/07
Top CriticThe ambitious Memory is about coming to grips with the past (or not) and the ownership of memory.
04/19/07
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