La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises

This is the best 2024 release I've seen this year so far and we're in the middle of December 2024.

It tells a story happening in Poland during WWII, almost like a popular tale. Most of the plot happens in a forest, so typical for the aforementioned popular tales, turning around a pair of woodcutters adopting a Jewish baby girl who has been thrown off a deportation train crossing their forest. She was thrown off by her father to save her from certain death in Auschwitz. I won't go further into details of the plot so you can see them by yourself, I just want to add the film will come to a deeply philosophical conclusion.

On the technical side all is done perfectly too. The movie's visuals are outstandingly done. The drawing style is just right, not too detailed nor too rough, mostly showing scenes in weak lighting with dominating shades of grey, thus underlining the horrors of the most infamous war and occurrence of mass extermination in human history.

And then the soundtrack which is sublime: The musical score, the sound effects, the narration and the voice acting (I saw the original version in French), all totally appropriate to present this gem of a film.

In conclusion it's one of the best movies treating the subject of racism and particularly the Shoah, by its artistic procedure and the story it wants to tell.