"That one is the Holocaust-themed feature based on the novel Wartime Lies by Louis Begley that Stanley Kubrick tinkered with for years before finally abandoning; Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino is now rumoured to be trying to get it off the ground. Like the Kubrick/Guadagnino, this Aryan Papers, written and directed by ultra-low-budget film-maker Danny Patrick (The Film Festival, The Irish Connection), takes its name from the Nazi-issued certificate, also known as the Ariernachweis,"
"Patrick's film, a work that with any luck will be forgotten by next week. Like the embarrassingly bad comedy The Film Festival (AKA The Worst Film Festival Ever), this is a shockingly poor effort on just about every level, from the inept, back-of-a-beer-mat script, the lazy use of obviously not-German, non-period-proofed locations (a modern plastic wheelie bin is visible in several shots), to the frankly insultingly bad acting throughout."
Aryan Papers is a Second World War-set drama named after the Nazi Ariernachweis certificate. The plot centres on a Lebensborn facility near Stuttgart in 1942 pairing vetted women with Nazi officers to breed so-called Aryan babies. The production is ultra-low-budget, with fractured editing that obscures the timeline and non-period-proofed locations that reveal contemporary props. The script is described as inept and amateurish, and acting is widely poor, though Celia Learmonth receives some positive note. Overall production and performance failures lead to predictions that the film will be quickly forgotten.
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