Slawomir Grünberg’s Still Life in Lodz: Streaming Review; shows how art and objects can take us back emotionally to another place and time
It might be enough to simply stop and rebuild the old lives of these three’s families, but the filmmaker goes above and beyond to recreate as much of this town in its original form as possible. With a dearth of archival material and an emphasis on bringing them to life we HEAR the trains engines firing up and the cries of Jews being sent to death camps. The middle section of the film really draws out the history of the Nazi takeover of this neighborhood.