Cognet's work is more devoted to thought about aesthetics than aesthetics themselves. His modest film represents a break from the rigorous historical work typically associated with documentaries about the Holocaust, and its open-ended nature is a fitting analogue to ongoing questions about testimony and healing.
Because I Was a Painter(Parce que j'étais peintre)
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France, Germany · 2014
1h 44m
Director Christophe Cognet
Starring
Genre Documentary
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When the Allies liberated Nazi concentration camps in 1945, they discovered thousands of pieces of hidden artwork, created in secret by prisoners. Because I Was a Painter documents some of these artworks, reexamining the Holocaust through the survivors that refused to surrender their artistic spirit in the face of evil.
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More attention paid to the narrative of some of these pieces, rather than simply their craft, could have been more enlightening.
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
A less successful aspect of the film is Cognet’s attempt to tie the concentration camps as contemporary spaces into the narrative, with shots of the now practically empty landscapes -- some tourists here and there notwithstanding -- interspersed throughout.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
As crude as many of these works are, they exert an eerie cumulative power.
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