tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post5781167141893944943..comments2023-04-07T23:13:18.502-10:00Comments on Marks in the Margin: Last Hope IslandRichard Katzevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03466537940588392927noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-4546455968001288312017-06-20T10:26:37.329-10:002017-06-20T10:26:37.329-10:00Linda: Did you stream the film or watch it on a D...Linda: Did you stream the film or watch it on a DVD. As far as I can tell, it's not yet available as a DVD. RichardRichard Katzevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03466537940588392927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-91019849422483993262017-06-20T07:24:57.678-10:002017-06-20T07:24:57.678-10:00Linda:
I appreciate your very thoughtful commen...Linda: <br /><br />I appreciate your very thoughtful comment. If you are as interested in WW2 as I am, I think you'll enjoy the book. It can be read slowly.<br /><br />I am familiar with Irene Nemirovsky's books, but I was unaware the the film. Thanks for telling me about it; I will find it. <br /><br />RichardRichard Katzevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03466537940588392927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215036862051955994.post-44991354651577676262017-06-20T07:14:26.810-10:002017-06-20T07:14:26.810-10:00This does indeed sound like a fascinating book to ...This does indeed sound like a fascinating book to read - and dealing with a period that has always been fascinating to me. I think it is so because it seems as though civilization was on the brink of destruction, but was saved just in time not only by leaders, generals and heroes, but also the by countless actions of ordinary people - common soldiers and civilians who sacrificed, and stood up and did the right thing in small ways and large. It is good that those obscure and ordinary people are acknowledged.<br /><br />Your review reminds me of a movie I watched a week or so ago - on Netflix - "Suite Francaise" based on the book by Irène Némirovsky. From the NYT: "Born in Ukraine, Irène Némirovsky had lived in France since 1919 and had established herself in her adopted country's literary community, publishing nine novels and a biography of Chekhov. She composed "Suite Française" in the village of Issy-l'Evêque, where she, her husband and two young daughters had settled after fleeing Paris. On July 13, 1942, French policemen, enforcing the German race laws, arrested Némirovsky as "a stateless person of Jewish descent." She was transported to Auschwitz, where she died in the infirmary on Aug. 17."<br /><br />The film is about two French women in a village not far from Paris that is forced to billet German soldiers during the occupation and how the villagers, and especially these two women, respond to the crisis. I think you would like it.Lindahttps://commonplacefortheuncommon.com/noreply@blogger.com