Tickling Leo

Echoes of the Holocaust, Reverberating Through the Generations

The troubled voice that dominates “Tickling Leo” belongs to Warren Pikler (Lawrence Pressman), an aged Hungarian Jewish poet who lives alone on wooded property in the Catskills. Increasingly beset by frightening flashbacks to his childhood during World War II, Warren is a Lear-like figure, slipping in and out of paranoid dementia, who has taken to wandering naked around his property.
Spun around Warren’s memories, the film, written and directed by Jeremy Davidson, is a forum on Jewish identity and the legacy of life-and-death decisions made during the Holocaust. [...]

di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (3014 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 4 Settembre 2009