Milk
Both films sit with belonging, loss of innocence, and the family you choose. They share the same lens on life under oppression and religion and faith. Same energy: hopeful, melancholic, escalating, and episodic.
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken when all members of the family are forced to wear the yellow star. Fearing the worst, the parents organized their family to flee to the free zone in the south of the country. Maurice, twelve years old, and Joseph, ten years old, will therefore leave alone in order to maximize their chances of finding their older brothers already settled in Nice. The brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
If A Bag of Marbles hit you the right way, here are Hollywood films that share its DNA. Same emotional weight, same kind of stories, same kind of payoff.
Both films sit with belonging, loss of innocence, and the family you choose. They share the same lens on life under oppression and religion and faith. Same energy: hopeful, melancholic, escalating, and episodic.
Both films sit with belonging, loss of innocence, and grief. They share the same lens on family wounds passed down and life under oppression. The feel is the same: warm, melancholic, episodic, and escalating.