![]() ![]() After a horrendous, riveting scene of the city’s first major bombing-and the surreal sight of shell-shocked leopards and kangaroos wandering the streets of Warsaw-the movie settles into its conventional narrative: Jan and Antonina decide to turn their newly emptied grounds into a pig farm, which itself becomes a front for smuggling Jews out of the sealed-off ghetto into the vacant underground pens and ultimately to freedom with newly forged papers. ![]() Director Niki Caro ( The Whale Rider) has adapted Diane Ackerman’s best-selling 2007 nonfiction book into a well-meaning but disappointingly schematic film: Subtract the zebras and the spider monkeys, and it’s one more timeworn tale of tragedy and triumph, poisonous Nazis and noble resistance.
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