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The Memory Thief
Directed by
Gil Kofman
Not Rated
2007
1h 35m
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5.6
80%
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A growing obsession with the Holocaust exacerbates the mental breakdown of a lonely tollbooth operator.
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Cast of The Memory Thief
Mark Webber
Lukas
Rachel Miner
Mira
Jerry Adler
Mr. Zweig
Allan Rich
Zvi
Peter Jacobson
Mr. Freeman
Douglas Spain
Dominic
Mary Pat Gleason
Hospital Patient
Gil Kofman
Director / Writer / Producer
Marika Van Adelsburg
Producer
The Memory Thief Ratings & Reviews
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
A thoughtful, creative, and disturbing way to treat the numbness of Holocaust and genocide fatigue, through striking images of a man's bizarre transformation and obsession.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
There are intriguing issues swirling around the film, but [director] Kofman never brings it to a boil, never finds the deeper, truer meaning inside the ideas he is grappling with.
Film Journal International
Eric Monder
The film deserves qualified praise.
San Francisco Chronicle
Leba Hertz
Director Gil Kofman's attempt is noble in trying to show this descent into madness, but something rings false.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
While the film tends to talk over itself in its attempt to say all it needs to say on the subject, his film's uncompromisingly bleak vision is a bracing alternative.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
In The Memory Thief, a strange and melancholy journey to the heart of madness, a rootless young man finds meaning in the horrors of a stolen past.
Slant Magazine
Eric Henderson
Another case study delving into the hubris and insult of trying too hard to feel someone else's pain.
Village Voice
Vadim Rizov
The film is (perhaps deliberately) as unbalanced as its protagonist, one whose fury ultimately seems directed either nowhere in particular or in too many directions at once -- until things eventually devolve into a Taxi Driver riff.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Kofman includes real-life Holocaust survivors in his cast, a bold and unsettling stroke in a fictional story that's more challenging than most documentaries about the subject.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Michele Kenner
The Memory Thief, the first narrative feature by Gil Kofman, grants intimate entrance into a needy person's life -- a life bent around the facts of the darkest hours of the 20th century.
Chicago Tribune
Maureen M. Hart
Tragedy and closure, memory and truth are the subjects of writer/director Gil Kofman's first narrative feature.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
A Holocaust movie with quite an original twist--about a tollbooth collector who imagines himself to be a survivor of Nazi horrors.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The deeply felt performances from [Mark] Webber and Jerry Adler overwhelm the film about a young man whose way of connecting to others is to mirror them.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
The ambitious Memory is about coming to grips with the past (or not) and the ownership of memory.
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