Black Book

Black Book (Zvartboek), Directed by Paul Verhoeven (Holland, 2006) *145 minutes * German, Dutch, Hebrew with English subtitles.

A *must see* feature film of the 2008 Tucson Jewish Film Festival.

Hollywood honed tech smarts and European character sensibilities mesh entertainingly in a WWII resistance thriller . A fictional tale about a young Jewish woman who falls for a Gestapo officer while seeking revenge for her familys murders, moves like an express train across almost 2 1/2 hours without any sense of rush and with strong, empathetic characters. Official Selection 2006 Toronto International Film Festival

*In Paul Verhoeven*s film about a Jewish spy infiltrating the Nazis, heroism and treachery are hard to tell apart.* - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times