Repost: Hannah Arendt (November 16th at the Cleveland Cinematheque)

[HANNAH ARENDT screens Saturday November 16th at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]

Review by Pamela Zoslov

It's not easy to make a movie about a writer. What do they do, except sit in front of a typewriter and think, type and worry? So imagine you're director Margarethe von Trotta, and your subject is Hannah Arendt, the German-Jewish writer, philosopher and political theorist best known for the term “the banality of evil.” Writing, philosophizing and theorizing, three of the least visually dynamic activities on earth. One solution: have your subject smoke. A lot. So many cigarettes are consumed during HANNAH ARENDT, I wouldn't be surprised if the film's crew got cancer.

Hannah Arendt (opens September 20th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre)

[HANNAH ARENDT opens in Cleveland on Friday, September 20th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]

Review by Pamela Zoslov

It's not easy to make a movie about a writer. What do they do, except sit in front of a typewriter and think, type and worry? So imagine you're director Margarethe von Trotta, and your subject is Hannah Arendt, the German-Jewish writer, philosopher and political theorist best known for the term “the banality of evil.” Writing, philosophizing and theorizing, three of the least visually dynamic activities on earth. One solution: have your subject smoke. A lot. So many cigarettes are consumed during HANNAH ARENDT, I wouldn't be surprised if the film's crew got cancer.