In Darkness

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In Darkness is certainly an apt title for the latest from Europa, Europa director Agnieszka Holland: It describes the film on every level...

There is release at the end of this fine film, but no euphoria; just a sense of having come through a period of evil, the memory of whose darkness will never entirely lift.

...smartly tells his story even as it relays the nearly unbearable misery the Jewish people of Lvov endured.

...it retains a potent way with generalities, evoking horrid events unfolding above its characters’ heads, the thickening of already-musty air with suspicion.