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Review: The haunting Holocaust doc 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' finds mystery in minutiae

The snippets of footage that are played and replayed in "Three Minutes: A Lengthening" open a window — smudged, weathered, mysterious, revelatory — onto a world that no longer exists. To some extent, as noted by one of the interlocutors in this probing and ruminative essay film, this is the fate of most filmed nonfiction material, since the reality being documented is always in flux. But the ...
Helena Bonham Carter, who narrates the documentary "Three Minutes: A Lengthening," attends the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards 2021 at Television Centre on June 6, 2021, in London.

The snippets of footage that are played and replayed in "Three Minutes: A Lengthening" open a window — smudged, weathered, mysterious, revelatory — onto a world that no longer exists.

To some extent, as noted by one of the interlocutors in this probing and ruminative essay film, this is the fate of most filmed nonfiction material, since the reality being documented is always in flux. But the weight of history lends these specific images an especially stark, sobering power.

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