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The Holocaust in the text: Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and the allegorical film adaptation.

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From: Film Criticism
Date: 20020922
Author:Carr, Steven Alan

At the end of the last century, films such as Schindler's List (Stephen Spielberg, 1994) and Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1998) prompted a reactionary reassertion of modernist approaches to representing the Holocaust. In particular, some critics have heaped scorn upon Life Is Beautiful for its purported trivialization of life in a concentration camp. Such criticism signals a deeper crisis in representation: no depiction will ever represent the Holocaust authentically, yet any depiction revealing its own artifice remains vulnerable to accusations of trivializing the Shoah. ...

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