In Italian cinemas exclusively 26 e 27 January on the occasion of Memorial Day – the last feature film directed by French director Lola Doillon, Inspired by a true story.

The thirteen year old Fanny is left by parents – along with two younger sisters – in a colony, where some teachers are concerned with protecting Jewish children from the Nazis. Things change when the SS discover the secret activities of the colony. At that point, Fanny, his sisters and new friends, It will only have to undertake a long and dangerous journey in order to reach the Swiss border.

Admirable the operation carried out by the French filmmaker, which, Unlike many German directors, rarely he has treated a theme like the holocaust. Yet The Fanny journey from his first credited to tell us something unknown to most, namely the existence of family-houses willing to look after children of Jewish parents in order to save them from the Nazis. Seen from a purely informative point of view, therefore, This last feature of Doillon proves quite interesting.

The main problems, in reality, are other. It addresses the performance of the film itself: overly intrusive, in fact, This is the music, which it makes sure that the entire product resembles almost to a work intended for the tv. The same must be said for the script itself: too explicit dialogues tend to round the pictures and not forcing a few make it all not credible (despite, just, Whether it's a true story).

Address to be done on the protagonists children: the young actors have so many potential, but nevertheless are sometimes excessively plastered, including the protagonist. Sin. Especially because the story itself is really very promising and full of ideas. I wonder if anyone else decides to tell it again in its own way. we'll see! Meantime, Fanny trip, in the hall on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, It is undoubtedly another important document of one of the greatest tragedies of the last century.

marina fears