![]() The addition of a visual component not only ensures that Anne’s teenage musings will resonate with a contemporary audience, but also makes them feel even more visceral, immediate, and tragic. While the words of Anne’s diary have been ingrained in our societal consciousness for close to seventy years, their effect on inquisitive minds is still as potent as ever. ![]() Adapter Ari Folman (whose film Waltz with Bashir is arguably one of the best animated films ever to have been produced in Israel) and artist David Polonsky bring a fresh perspective to the saga of Anne and her family, and their fateful time in that Amsterdam Achterhuis. While it may not seem an intuitive choice, the synergy between Frank’s lucid and precocious view of the world and a keen artistic interpretation of her words lends itself to a new, and moving, experience. ![]() So what is the point of yet another iteration? With the troubling rise in the American populace unaware of the significance of the Holocaust, any pedagogical tool that explains the destruction wrought by the Third Reich is a valuable commodity.Įnter Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, a project supported and authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation in order to bring Frank’s story to a new audience. ![]() A continuing source of fascination in the Western literary canon, Anne Frank’s iconic diary has been endlessly debated and analyzed. ![]()
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