The Tin Drum (1979)
May 8, 2004Boy Who Refuses to Grow Up/Nazi Allegory
Volker Schlondorff's adaptation of Gunther Grass's darkly funny book about a young boy in Nazi Germany who refuses to grow up
Volker Schlondorff
The Handmaid’s Tale (1990)
Dec 24, 2002Fundamentalist Dystopia
The original version of the Margaret Atwood novel made way before the tv series. This aims in the general direction but is more a film that achieves a sense of disquiet rather than the true horror of its’ heroine’s situation in this world