DVD: A Love to Hide.Directed by Christian Faure Starring Jeremie Renier and Bruno Todeschini * Picture This! The Nazi persecution of gays during the Holocaust gets the TV-movie treatment in this French im port starring up-and-coming thesp Jeremie Renier who rose to attention in Francois Ozon's Criminal Lovers and confirmed his chops last year in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's The Child. He s got considerably less to do in this muddled mud·dle v. mud·dled, mud·dling, mud·dles v.tr. 1. To make turbid or muddy. 2. To mix confusedly; jumble. 3. To confuse or befuddle (the mind), as with alcohol. movie, which never seems clear which Holocaust story it wants to tell and thus tries to tell all of them. Renier and Bruno Todeschini play a gay couple in Vichy France Vichy France officially French State French État Français (July 1940–September 1944) French regime in World War II after the German defeat of France. who risk everything by taking in a Jewish woman Renier's first love. The attention paid to this unconventional threesome is all for naught, though. The real story line kicks in an hour too late, as Renier's jealous brother inadvertently gets his sibling sibling /sib·ling/ (sib´ling) any of two or more offspring of the same parents; a brother or sister. sib·ling n. tossed into a concentration camp, It's here that the movie tries to shed light on a tragically underrepresented un·der·rep·re·sent·ed adj. Insufficiently or inadequately represented: the underrepresented minority groups, ignored by the government. aspect of the Holocaust. Unfortunately it didn't have the courage to build on these scenes instead of skimming Skimming An electronic method of capturing a victim's personal information used by identity thieves. The skimmer is a small device that scans a credit card and stores the information contained in the magnetic strip. past them like a film in fast-forward. Kyle Buchanan |
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