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How Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin Made a Different Kind of Holocaust Movie

Jesse Eisenberg has “very strong opinions on Holocaust cinema.” “I just have a very kind of, let’s say—what’s the word—touchy reaction to the way the Holocaust is presented in films,” he tells me in a video interview. “It’s such an easy thing to evoke sympathy with a Holocaust setting that I feel, almost from a creative perspective, it’s so exploitative when they overdo it.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Eisenberg says this knowing very well he recently contributed to this canon—albeit in an atypical way.

 

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