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November 8 • 2012

Michael Fox
Special to the Jewish News

well, you can probably guess.
Both families weather the war seem-
ingly without further incident, for the
he most surprising and
film picks up their stories in the spring
refreshing aspect of Simon and of 1945. At this point, Isak all but disap-
the Oaks, a terrific-looking
pears from Simon and the Oaks as the
Swedish saga of a cultured Jewish fam-
revelation and rippling aftershocks of
ily and a rural non-Jewish family before Simon's identity take center stage.
and after World War II, is what's left
On one level, Simon and the Oaks is
out: the war years.
not a Jewish parable so much as a story
The recent wave of Scandinavian
of discovering and accepting one's iden-
directors examining the moral and
tity, roots, legacy and place in the world.
immoral actions of their countrymen
But for Simon, the shock of discovering
during the Nazi occupation in films
he's part of a group designated and deni-
such as Black Book, Flame & Citron and
grated as "the other" since he was a child
Max Manus is long overdue. One wearies raises the stakes even higher.
of the sight of Nazi uniforms and longs
Neither he nor we know how how to
for fresh angles on that fraught period.
respond to Isak's female cousin, who
That's exactly what we get in
surfaces after the war as a psychologi-
Lisa Ohlin's adaptation of Marianne
cally scarred survivor of Auschwitz. Iza's
Fredriksson's 1985 bestseller about two
scenes are the rawest and most shocking
boys who are endless disappointments to
in the film.
their fathers.
The director, Lisa Ohlin, was born in
The frustrated lads, for their part,
New York in 1960; her parents separated
ponder how to escape their "wrong"
shortly thereafter, and her father returned
families. Their travails and journeys to
to Sweden. Her mother died when she was
adulthood are made even more compli-
5 so Ohlin moved to Sweden to live with
cated by Jewish lineage in a climate of
her father. It wasn't until she was a teen-
anti-Semitism.
ager that she learned that her mother was
The film nicely balances period real-
Jewish and had fled Germany in 1939.
ism with poetic metaphors but is less
"I know how it is when you feel like
adept at resisting melodramatic impulses
you don't belong somewhere, very much
in the last few reels.
like how Simon feels in the film," Ohlin
Simon and Isak meet in 1939 and
told the New York-based, Swedish-
bond instantly. Simon is the rare work-
American newspaper Nordstjernan. "I
ing-class kid in an upscale grammar
was different; I didn't look like a Swede
school while Isak is a German Jew who's nor did I feel like one"
bullied daily by anti-Semitic classmates.
One of the most expensive produc-
When Simon sees Isak's home, a sprawl- tions in the history of Swedish cinema,
ing art- and book-filled apartment,
Simon and the Oaks earned a record
he sees a world to which he aspires to
13 Guldbagge Award nominations
belong.
(the equivalent of the Oscar) from the
The Nazi invasion of Poland precipi-
Swedish Film Institute and wins for sup-
tates Isak's mother's nervous breakdown,
porting actress and supporting actor.
and the traumatized boy — with the
However, Ohlin was disappointed with
consent of his father, an affluent, self-
one aspect of its domestic release.
confident bookseller — comes to live
"We still have a lot of anti-Semitism
with Simon's family on the outskirts of
in Sweden, and so little has changed:'
Gothenburg.
she told Nordstejernan. "It is still an
Isak discovers an aptitude for work-
untouchable subject, and we don't talk
ing with tools, which endears him to
about it in the fear of triggering it. I
Simon's father. Meanwhile, Isak's dad
thought the film would create a debate,
takes Simon to a concert, introducing
but not much has happened:'
him to classical music.
But it's not precisely an introduction,
Simon and the Oaks is scheduled
for there's a secret in Simon's past: He
to open on Friday, Nov. 9, at
was not born to the parents who've raised
Landmark's Main Art Theatre in
him since he was an infant. His real
Royal Oak. (248) 263-2111; www.
father was a music professor as well as —
landmarkarttheatres.com .

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