The Devil's Arithmetic is clearly made for television. It just lacks quality to be shown in a movie theater. Kirsten Dunst is still young in this movie and it shows, it's not the same quality of acting that we know her for nowadays. Whatever other positive reviewers say about her for this movie it's just not there. The rest of the cast are also just average at best. The story doesn't make much sense, it's rather dumb than smart. The Polish Jews talking in a bad forced English was also stupid, just speak Polish or Hebrew, or just speak correct English, any other attempt of a language is just irritating to listen to. As well with the Germans and their fake accent, it's annoying. The plot is basically learning about the Jewish traditions, which are by the way dumb, like any other religious tradions. As for the Holocaust scenes the actors lookd pretty well fed, besides their bad haircut they absolutely don't look like Holocaust victims, so here again they missed the whole point. The Devil's Arithmetic is a boring movie about a sensible subject.
Review of The Devil's Arithmetic
The Devil's Arithmetic
(1999 TV Movie)
Not very well made. There are better movies about the Holocaust.
16 December 2020