SummaryHelene, Lili and Rose met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. However, after the liberation of the camp, they lost touch. Lili went back to the Netherlands. Rose married a former deportee and settled down... Read More
Directed By:Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
Written By:Odile Barski, Danièle D'Antoni, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann
To Life
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May 26, 2016
80
There is a delicate beauty to this movie and its visual composition.
May 26, 2016
75
À la vie is a gentle toast – the film sticks to its subtle tone, which is both its strength and its weakness.
May 26, 2016
50
More resonant in theory than in execution, the post-Holocaust drama To Life never truly embraces the promise of its title or the roiling emotion beneath its surface.
May 26, 2016
50
Absent any real sense of who these three women are as individuals, most of their behavior is reduced to what feels like tics that are meant to illuminate character in a rather crude way.
May 26, 2016
40
Given the complexity of everything the characters went through, it’s a shame to witness their lives reduced to a sequence of TV-movie moments.
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Production Company:
- Elzévir Films
- France 3 Cinéma
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- France Télévisions
- La Région Île-de-France
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Pictanovo
- Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- Cofimage 25
- Palatine Étoile 11
- Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
Release Date:May 27, 2016
Duration:1 h 44 m
Tagline:Bury the Past. Celebrate the Present. To Life!
Awards
Lumiere Awards, France
• 1 Nomination
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 1 Nomination
Locarno Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
