A ★★★ review of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

As I wasn’t very fond of La vita e bella, I’m not fond of this one either. For separate reasons, but partly the same reasons. The emotions were a bit off imho. It was a boring narrative structure without a deus ex machina at the end. The father figure deserved some cathartic outcome…  David Thewlis reminding me of his Naked character also did not help me. Could not shake it of!

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startli…

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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)

When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a Jewish prisoner or the role his own Nazi father plays in his imprisonment, Bruno embarks on a dangerous journey inside the camp's walls.

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