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  • Summary: The chronicle of a Hungarian Jewish family during the tumultuous first half of the 20th century.
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. An elegant, poetic fable of endurance.
  2. Reviewed by: David Chute
    80
    Most of the movie is observant and level-headed, a tip of the hat to ordinary schlubs entangled in vast events, people who would otherwise be background victims in a conventional historical drama.
  3. 40
    Time and space are condensed by means both elegant and crafty, and rarely are any of the characters made to be more--or less--than allegorical.
  4. 20
    Major characters drop in and out of sight, WWII begins and ends without much fanfare, and full decades pass in the space of a few cuts.

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