The Memory Thief 2007

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: 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. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more

Maureen M. Hart, Chicago Tribune: Tragedy and closure, memory and truth are the subjects of writer/director Gil Kofman's first narrative feature. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: 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. Read more

Leba Hertz, San Francisco Chronicle: Director Gil Kofman's attempt is noble in trying to show this descent into madness, but something rings false. Read more

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Vadim Rizov, Village Voice: 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. Read more