Où est Anne Frank!

This is a good movie with a different approach to a known story to many. The animation is good and the story itself has nice moments and can be very emotional.

Unfortunetely, the last 15 minutes are filled with nowadays propaganda as if Anne Frank is a 20 years old activist, and honestly, if i knew that, i would never watched it since i'm completely over with pretentious and political movies.

I will not spoil anything but the end itself, as a movie, left me empty as it lead me to believe one thing and then reverts completely. I'm fine with creative freedom in storytelling and i usually like unexpected endings, but i didn't liked this and my rating reflects all that.

This movie is not afraid to mix a lot of ideas to remember the spirit of Anne Frank. The idea is to keep alive a war against racism and intolerance in a modern and brilliant movie. The animation is amazing and the way it represents nazism is absolutely beautiful and horrifying. Maybe I disagree a lot when I see parallels between Europeans Cops and nazis, so the movie is not perfect as was Congress. But maybe to show to the young generation when our aged grand parents will disappear with the memory of this horrible war.

This is a very good movie, and I really liked it. So rating it just 8 stars is, as far as I'm concerned, plain shame. But there are two very annoying faults standing between this movie and the perfect mark.

I mean, it is beautifully animated and acted. The two leads are simply wonderful. Namely Emily Carey as Anne Frank really feels like the girl who survived two years in a hidden apartment, stuck with her own family, another family and a crude dentist. And Ruby Stokes is perfect as the temperamental imaginary friend created by Anne Frank as a literary ploy in order not to speak with herself in her now famous diary. In fact I also loved the idea of the movie using this imaginary friend as a bridge between present day Europe and the days when the actual diary was written and it worked superbly almost all the way through.

And then we reach the ending and the perfect movie is turning all of a sudden from deep and thought provoking into simplistic attempt to solve the entire international refugees problem with a wave of a hand and a few brush strokes. And it also commits the sin of turning too preachy, as if it doesn't trust the viewers to get its point without having it spelled out in plain words. The movie didn't need this bluntness it was working so well without it.

Kitty, the imaginary girl who Anne Frank wrote to in her 1940s diary during WWII, seeks out the deceased diarist while also inspiring a wave of modern social justice for refugees. As Kitty embarks on a journey to find Anne, who she believes is still alive, in today's Europe . Although the young girl is impressed by the vicissitudes of the modern world, she is also surprised by the legacy that Anne has left behind.

A well-intentioned movie but with a silly plot about Anne Frank's friend Kitty who steals Anne's diary in order to achieve a just cause so that immigrants from the Netherlands are not deported to their home countries. The film follows the journey of Kitty, the imaginary friend to whom Anne Frank dedicated her diary. The animation style of the film is very delicate , but the interaction established between the Holocaust and the current situation of the emigrants seems somewhat forced although, of course, necessary . The protagonists are a fiery teenager, Kitty , who wakes up in the near future in Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam , as the young girl is shocked by the modern world, she also comes across Anne's legacy and Anne Frank herself.

While hesitating for a time to accept the challenge posed to him by the Anne Frank Foundation, Folman has made several outstanding artistic decisions to emerge well from a journey of more than a decade. Folman was born in Haifa, Israel. He is a writer and director, known for The Congress (2013), Walz with Bashir (2008) and Clara Hakedosha (1996).

There're several biographic remarks about Anne Frank :nnelies Marie Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her parents were Otto and Edith Frank. For the first five years of her life, Anne lived with her parents and Margot, her older sister, in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Otto Frank fled to Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, where he had business contacts. The rest of the Frank family soon followed, Anne being the last to arrive in February 1934 because she had stayed with her grandparents in Aachen. The fate of the Franks and other Amsterdam Jews was marked by the German occupation of the city. City, which began in May 1940. In early 1942, the Germans began preparations to deport Jews from the Netherlands to killing centers in the east. At that time, they demanded that all Dutch Jews be concentrated in Amsterdam. They also decided to intern all non-Dutch Jews in the Westerbork transit camp. From Westerbork, German officials deported Jews to the killing centers at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sobibor in German-occupied Poland. The first deportation transport left Westerbork on July 15, 1942, bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. These deportations and the intensification of anti-Semitic measures alarmed many Jews in the Netherlands, among whom were the Franks. Anne and her family decided to go into hiding in the first 15 days of July 1942. They were later joined by four other Jews: Hermann, Auguste and Peter van Pels, as well as Fritz Pfeffer. For two years, they all lived in a secret apartment at 263 Prinsengracht. The apartment was behind the commercial offices where Otto Frank had worked as a company manager. In her diary, Ana refers to the hideout as the "secret annex". Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Johan Voskuijl, Bep Voskuijl, Jan Gies and Miep Gies, who were friends and colleagues of Otto Frank, helped set up the hideout and smuggled food and clothing to the Franks, risking their own lives. During the time they were in hiding, Ana kept a journal where she wrote about her fears, hopes, and experiences. Then there takes place Arrest and deportation. On August 4, 1944, the German SS and police discovered the hideout. Authorities had long been believed to have acted on a tip from an anonymous Dutchman, but a more recent theory found that the Germans discovered the hideout by chance while investigating reports of illegal work being done in the house and they committed fraud with the ration coupons.

In 2008, director Ari Forman gave us Waltz With Bashir, an emotional attempt to settle accounts with his own past, when as a teenage soldier he participated in the most violent event of the war between Palestine and Israel. 13 years later, the director's new project hits the theatres, this time focusing on Anne Frank and the diary she wrote while hiding from the Nazis. With this new film, Ari Forman proves that even the animation aiming at families may be as powerful as other classic representatives of the genre.

The story divides into two layers: the first one focuses on Anne Frank, giving the audience the account of the uncertainty and tragedies her and her family went through, with the deportation to the death camp as its culmination.

The second layer concerns Anne's imaginary friend Kitty. As a result of unexplained phenomenon, Kitty awakens from the diary. Not knowing what happened to Anne, she tries to find her by all cost.

Ari Folman seems to be an admirer of animation. He knows how to use the medium so that his movies work in the emotional sphere. Despite some graphic scenes, Waltz With Bashir had many sequences that supplied the story with more poetical scent. Where Is Anne Frank works to some extent in a similar way. However, we never see violence directly. It's toned down, replaced by the imagery resembling the unforgettable animated sequence from Alan Parker's The Wall. When it comes to the characters themselves, not only do they have eye-candy designes, but also their animation is detailed and fluent.

However, the filmmakers never forget during the whole runtime that presentation is just a medium and it's the characters that engage the audience into the story. Even though there is a whole variety of characters in the movie, each of them is properly developed. I especially liked Kitty, as her determination in the investigation makes the story truly engaging and this is the part, where the true message of the story shines out. As the movie goes on, Folman attempts to coin the message about fighting with racial prejudice both in terms of Jews during World War II and the refugees in modern times. Though initially I had problems with seeing the consistency, the director manages to acheive it at the end of the movie.

All sorts of anti-prejudice media, from books to movies, will always be of great importance.

Where Is Anne Frank may be a good subject for conversation between children and their parents. Both groups may take an important lesson of tolerance out of it. In modern times, this is why such stories are of great value.

Let me finish by quoting the dialogue I remembered from the movie the most.

"Anne: Why do people hate us?

Kitty: Because they always need some scapegoat."