Film No. 19 (2017) March 25th. 11.00 AM LUNA PALACE, Leederville.
"Well, the man's an anti-semite and a racist. It's like having shit on your shoe. You wipe it off. You don't study it" (Anthony Julius responds to the question as to why he wasn't excited about some of the arguments put to Irving in court).
Another true tale told, in the main as a courtroom drama. A particularly well crafted legal parry, it must be said, with not a gaol sentence insight, only the pride of historians and solicitors at stake. The well known Holocaust denier David Irving (Timothy Spall) sues historian Debora Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz), claiming she was destroying his reputation as an historian. And so Denial becomes an interesting debate between common sense and a crank in the most formal of British courts. If not slightly long, Denial is a great mix of British banter and American naivety. 8GUMS
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