Arnon Grunberg

Thought

Anglomania

‘“Hannah Arendt” conveys the glamour, charisma and difficulty of a certain kind of German thought,’ A.O. Scott wrote in the Times. He was referring of course to the movie by Margarethe von Trotta

(Read the complete review here.)

I enjoyed her movie, clips from the Eichmann trial are cleverly embedded in it, but I’m not sure if the movie conveys a “certain kind of German thought”. It’s rather a portrait of a Jewish intellectual from Germany who against all odds, even after the Nazi’s, wants to remain German.

This is a movie about the German equivalent of Anglomania.

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