TIMES OF ISRAEL
In its search for a taken husband, ‘Memoir of War’ is haunting punch in the gut
by Jordan Hoffman
August 17, 2018

The impact of Nazism on ordinary citizens remains a fascinating and heartbreaking subject, and films on this topic show no sign of easing up. Nor should they. The latest, “Memoir of War,” based on Marguerite Duras’s autobiographical book published in 1985 (but written in part as a journal as events unfolded), is a punch to the gut — but also remarkable for its specificity. The details of Parisian life during its occupation (and the days just after liberation) can only be researched so far; to know it one has to have lived it. READ MORE