The Nazis’ relentless aerial bombing of London during World War II tore up the city at the same time it brought its people together — physically, out of necessity, in shelters and retreats, but also psychologically and spiritually, as a motivation to show wartime resolve. Today we know it as England’s “keep calm and carry on” mind-set, within which director …
One of the many stories we hear in “Occupied City,” Steve McQueen’s quietly staggering new documentary, charts the fate of an Amsterdam arts establishment during the German occupation. An image from the documentary “Occupied City.” Crucially — and with a restraint that builds in power as the movie progresses — McQueen never shows us archival footage from the 1940s or …
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