‘Amrum’ Review: Fatih Akin’s Understated Coming-of-Age Tale Is Generous, Classical and Soul-Stirring
On paper, Fatih Akin’s poetic and elegantly spare “Amrum” demands something morally impossible from us: take interest in a 12-year-old member of the Hitler youth, as he cares for his mother in the last days of the World War II. While you’re at it, maybe even sympathize with him. But as “Amrum” progresses in its […]