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Alexandre Nachi, Dakota Goyo, Gabriel Byrne

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Directed by: Paolo Barzman

Release Date: December 31, 2007

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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2008

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  • magnoliadupree
    July 9, 2009
    magnoliadupree
    Psychology is taking over my life. lol
  • mikeylovesgregg
    November 21, 2008
    mikeylovesgregg
    Very tender tale with a marvelous ensemble of actors. Susan Sarandon is perfect (as usual) in a very offbeat role for her. At times the film is over ambitious & feels somewhat "staged" & hard to swallow, but overall it's a great one-time see...
  • arizonamman
    July 30, 2008
    arizonamman
    A fantastic cast with a lame script, a snoozer. Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plumkmer, Max Von Sydow, Gabriel Byrne and Roy Dupuis all, unfortunately, mope around from the very beginning of a film shot during the beautiful fall season colors in Canada. After some more snoozing we ...( read more)eventually find out that Melanie (Sarandon, the only female in this cast), has been obsessed with the fate of 6 million Jews since the time of her release from the Drancy internment camp out side of Paris that was used as a "way station" for Jews being transported to Auschwitz. The only thing keeping your attention in this film is trying to figure out what brings all these people together and when the title of the film "A New Beginning" is going to happen. I really am not sure it ever did.

    Among black and white flashbacks and imagined children playing in the barn, we have to find some way to tie this all together and why they all came together at this moment in time.

    It seems that Sarandon's character is the only one that even wants to remember what happened in the past while her husband and son feel unterly miserable and helpless, even stifled, as a family (hence, the reason behind their depressive moods). Only her son's son seems oblivious to it all yet soon he too falls victim to the guilt trip it seems that Sarandon wishes on everyone.

    Alas, her only escape is her childhood sweetheart who mysteriously shows up with the man who traded 2 paks of cigarettes to the Nazi guards in order to save her and her father from the gas chambers. They eventually give in to their love for each other based only on their shared memories as very young children from the French camp. But alas, at the end of the day, he leaves (this is not a spoiler as he announces this upon his arrival at the beginning of the film), and she seems to slip back into her own little world.

    Well, that is about all I got out of this. The script just seemed to be a lesson in hopelessness and was confirmed at the end when the camp "statistics" were revealed to us on screen. This is a story of people who lived through the holocaust but we don't really see a lot of how they made it through, only that they can't move beyond their grief. It is no wonder you would be hard-pressed to find a review on this movie anywhere.

    I give it 1 1/2 stars only because of the acting talent. Too bad they had to work with a horrible script.

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