In war-torn times, a poor lumberjack and his wife live in a large forest. One day, a woman finds and rescues a little girl, which leads to an irreversible change in the lives of the couple and those whose paths the child crosses.
This is the best 2024 release I've seen this year so far and we're in mid-December 2024
It tells a story set in Poland during World War II, almost like a folk tale. Most of the action takes place in the forest, so typical of the aforementioned popular tales, where a couple of lumberjacks adopt a Jewish girl who is thrown off a deportation train passing through their forest.
On the technical side, everything is done perfectly too
Her father threw her in to save her from certain death in Auschwitz. I won't go into details about the plot so you can see for yourself, I just want to add that the film reaches a deep philosophical conclusion.
The visuals of the film are excellent
The style of painting is appropriate, not too detailed or too rough, depicting mostly low-light scenes with dominant shades of gray, highlighting the horrors of the most scandalous war and mass slaughter in human history. And then the soundtrack, which is sublime: the musical score, the sound effects, the narration and the voice acting (I saw the original version in French), all perfectly suited to the presentation of this precious film.
In conclusion, this is one of the best films that deals with the subject of racism and especially the Shoah, with the artistic process and the story it wants to tell