the first director credit by cinematographer Lajos Koltai, based on the quasi-autobiographical work by Imre Kertesz from 1975, is a remarkable work for two reasons. First, that it is such an assured and confident debut (Koltai is currently working on a...read the complete Fateless (2006) review at VideoVista (--)
Holocaust movies that are not documentaries too often seek to elicit pathos by piggy-backing on one of the great tragedies of history. It seems to me a bit of a cheat. Other films have laboriously to build up sympathy for their characters; the...read the complete Fateless (2006) review at JamesBowman.net (James Bowman)