The Flat

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The Flat details his efforts to understand this unusual situation, and although the film suggests that his relatives may have maintained this odd friendship as a denial of their homeland's betrayals, there's only so deep Goldfinger can dig.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Ultimately, this is not a film about one specific event but about human nature - most notably, the instincts toward denial and delusion, acceptance and forgiveness. From start to finish, revelations abound.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

A film that begins as a family quest but evolves into a gripping study of know-don't-tell reticence and the umbilical tie of a lost homeland.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

What makes The Flat mesmerizing is its wealth of historical detail. What makes it universal is what it says about families everywhere - that children, being children, don't want to know what their parents are up to, and that grown-ups, being human, don't want to credit troubling facts that conflict with what they need to believe.

Slant Magazine by Joseph Jon Lanthier

Accusation is the rhetoric of outrage, and Arnon Goldfinger can't bring himself to experience even conservative anger, regardless of its appropriateness.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

No definitive answers are possible to the questions The Flat raises, which makes them all the more provocative.

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

Goldfinger happened upon a story far larger than he must have anticipated. The Flat is about the persistence of denial, and of hope.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Is something being hidden? No. It's more that something doesn't want to be known.