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Local Call: Reader review
 
  jewishsightseeing.com, February 19, 2006

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Local Call directed by Arthur Joffe, France, 2004, 102 min, 35mm, French w/ subtitles

Saw "Local Call" last night.  Amazing film.   I thought the film was  about how particular survivors reacted to the Holocaust.  The father of  the main character put his son through a Job experience to make him  remember the Holocaust and his identity as a Jew.  While the daughter of the tailor wanted to forget and move on—not dwell on her  father's horrors.   It was still a disconcerting film as you keep wondering, when is he waking up and realizing it's all a dream or 
hallucination?—Mitchell J. Freedman, Poway, February 19, 2006