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A review by jstilts
Where Is Anne Frank by Lena Guberman, Ari Folman
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
slow-paced
1.0
Hate to give this a 2 star rating, but for what it is trying to achieve (according to the afterword: depict the holocaust and reflect current events where millions of children are displaced by war to diminishing numbers of countries willing to give refuge), it's simply not very good.
The plot is an incoherent mess, the art style is variable (even between characters in the same panel), and there's that crushing sense that a very worthy subject has been squandered. It tries to be reverential - ironically while critiquing such reverence - it's almost offensive in it's failure.
Additionally, I can't imagine who this book is aimed at. Perhaps it hopes to encourage those who have never read Anne Frank to do so, but I think they'll be baffled. For those who have read Anne Frank, I think they'll find this much as I did - an unworthy addition full of random nonsense, with a germ of an idea that went nowhere interesting.
The plot is an incoherent mess, the art style is variable (even between characters in the same panel), and there's that crushing sense that a very worthy subject has been squandered. It tries to be reverential - ironically while critiquing such reverence - it's almost offensive in it's failure.
Additionally, I can't imagine who this book is aimed at. Perhaps it hopes to encourage those who have never read Anne Frank to do so, but I think they'll be baffled. For those who have read Anne Frank, I think they'll find this much as I did - an unworthy addition full of random nonsense, with a germ of an idea that went nowhere interesting.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Hate crime, Kidnapping, Murder, Confinement, Deportation, Classism, Genocide, Antisemitism, Grief, War, Child death, Death, and Racism