Interesting examination of various human strategies for dealing with loss, whether the death of loved ones or the extermination of entire people's as in the Holocaust. Film has lots of heart, but may be a little pat in its approach. Two Jewish families in Antwerp deal badly with catastrophe. One tries to flee from everything Jewish into pure secular modernism. This leaves such an emptiness, that the head of the family doesn't know why he spends all his time combing the city for the place where he buried some family odds and ends before being deported during the war. The other family clings madly to orthodox Judaism as their only port in the storm and cuts themselves off narrow-mindedly and angrily from all that is new and different. Wise Mr. Apple-something, observes the Jewish rituals; attends synagogue devoutly, but is not too put off by a mini-skirt to show fondness and concern for the yearning soul inside.
So it's nice, OK?
So it's nice, OK?