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Steve McQueen’s four-and-a-half-hour documentary is a mammoth confrontation with a shameful historical legacy that draws parallels to our contemporary world, recounting in prismatic fashion and with startling sobriety the realities of life in Amsterdam during World War II under the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, using newly shot images of the city’s forever haunted spaces.
Dec 21, 2023 · In Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II. The accounts go address by address, and so does McQueen’s camera. Yet the images that play throughout “Occupied City” are of modern day Amsterdam.
Feb 6, 2024 · The films make a striking pair. Throughout the epic duration of Occupied City, juxtapositions of sound and image at each site, their convergence and divergence, hold your attention. McQueen has said on the festival circuit that one impetus for the film was learning that his daughter’s school in Amsterdam had been the site of an SS ...
Jan 4, 2024 · Jan. 4, 2024 9:52 AM PT. One of the many stories we hear in “Occupied City,” Steve McQueen’s quietly staggering new documentary, charts the fate of an Amsterdam arts establishment during the ...
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