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Slava Ukraini (2023)
Poetic narration from Bernard-Henri Levy in this powerful documentary
We saw "Slava Ukraini" today at Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale, the documentary from Jewish-French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, who travels to different parts of Ukraine in the second half of 2022. A few of the scenes that stuck with me: 1) Levy in a trench with Ukrainian soldiers as he reflects in narration "on this archaic habit of men burying themselves so not to die." 2) Levy visits a Breslov synagogue in Uman that sheltered outsiders, an act that he says serves as "a magnificent rebuttal to Putin's propaganda about the inexpiable war between Ukraine and its Jews." 3) Many powerful scenes of Levy interviewing Ukrainians from liberated regions, and especially the visual of survivors in liberated Kherson gathering around generators to charge their phones, preparing to call people who may have been killed. The movie ended with a powerful message that we must fully support Ukraine and not let the West push them to acquiesce ceding any of their territory to Russia. I highly recommended seeing this film.
Navalny (2022)
Truly incredible film about an incredible hero
I just finished this masterpiece of a documentary. The fact that it does not have a 10/10 rating here leaves me convinced Russian bots have voted the score down.
Watch it for yourself. It's a masterpiece of a movie--with incredible investigative journalism about the poisoning of a heroic man and his heroic team's fight for democracy in Russia. I hope somehow the film motivates good people around the world to support his fight for freedom for Russia and now for himself in prison. As Alexei Navalny says at the end of the movie "don't give up" and "the only way for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." #FreeNavalny.