That image of the women's hair will be ingrained in my mind forever. I actually vomited. Night and Fog stands beside Baraka as one of the most powerful documentaries of all-time, one exposing the beauty of our world, and the other, this one, exposing the very heart of darkness, the very core of the deepest abyss imaginable.

Resnais summoned the courage to bring us the blackened, cold piece of cinema that every other filmmaker was afraid to bring us. There's nothing else to say; the film speaks for itself. I'm not even going to tell you that it's a must-see, because I wouldn't blame anyone that decides to pass this beast up... but it is, without question, one of the greatest films ever made.

i can't in good conscience rate the realities of human suffering. this is gonna stick with me for a while

Unspeakable, deafening horror, not only because of its succession of images, but in the juxtaposition between the visual impact and the musical undercurrent.

Damn that was painful to watch... Night and Fog illustrates the horrors of the Holocaust, the absolute evil, in a simple yet honest and unflinching way. It's a 30 minutes tour of disturbing images, poetic narration and uncomfortable music, and a film that keeps reiterating that this evil is impossible to accurately portray to match the realities faced by the victims. Words cannot simply describe how haunting and devastating some of these images are. And how powerful this film is. I honestly still cannot believe that these horrors actually happened and these images are real. Essential viewing.

I spent this whole semester studying the Holocaust. The causes, the events, and the legacies. We watched a lot of films depicting and chronicling these horrors, but this was the only one that even came close to relating the sheer scale of what happened. I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone not prepared for gruesome footage that you can’t unsee, but this is important and will stay with me forever.

In class

[makes entire class of 10th graders watch this to continue prepping them to read Night]

Quite possibly the most important film ever made. Why? Because IT is a testament to humanity’s unique penchant for self-destruction. This film speaks for the millions who could not. As Son of Saul is the greatest Holocaust narrative film, this is the greatest Holocaust nonfiction/documentary film. It should honestly be required viewing at every high school in the world.

Also, don’t make the mistake I made and eat right before watching.

how did this happen…
might it happen again one day? might it be happening today?

Horrific subject matter but imperative to comprehend.

The mundane reality and matter of fact progression that preceded it and the only emptiness that followed in a sanitized reality reveal the most horrid of evils and serve to make the horror ever more real while Resnais's focus on the first person reality of the experience, colored with precise, subjective detail, coupled with methodical summary of the escalation of the file methods employed makes for a visceral, guttural experience of sorrow and dismay at the incomprehensible evil.

Θες να δεις κάτι για το Ολοκάυτωμα που θα σε συγκλονίσει ενώ ταυτόχρονα σέβεται εσένα ως θεατή ; πάτα play!

Watching this is a very similar experience to visiting a concentration camp. It removes the safety distance that comes with reading and hearing about this and places you right outside your comfort zone, confronting you with images that will hopefully stay with you forever, not to traumatise but to aknowledge history and to respect the victims of such mindless cruelty