A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films, memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
The works explore a process familiar to Jewish visitors to the death camps and the former homes of vanished loved ones: an ...
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Auschwitz in the era of dark tourism
On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, its significance is being trivialized by tourism and popular ...
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A Real Pain is a subtle but powerful exploration of remembrance culture and personal trauma
Of our own personal relationships. Can we – or should we seek to – ever escape the tightly woven net of our preoccupation with our past? Jesse Eisenberg explores these questions with curiosity, humour ...
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In 'A Real Pain,' Jesse Eisenberg asks: What is the purpose of 'tragedy tourism'?
A few years ago, actor Jesse Eisenberg was writing a movie about two men on a road trip in Mongolia when an ad popped up on ...
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Jesse Eisenberg's Latest Film Is Painfully Good
Multihyphenate Jesse Eisenberg acts as writer, director, and star of 'A Real Pain,' which is nominated for four awards at the 2025 Golden Globe Awards. The film is about two cousins searching for ...
A Real Pain: Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg star in 'uproariously funny' drama
The film, dubbed an heir of Woody Allen, follows Jewish American cousins who travel to Poland in memory of their late ...