Lubo

Lubo

Franz Rogowski
Francesca Scorzoni

VERDICT: Part survival-revenge drama, part love story, Giorgio Diritti’s “Lubo” addresses the Swiss state’s forcible removal of Jenisch children from their families beginning in the 1930s, and while Franz Rogowski’s magnetism keeps his morally complex character sympathetic, the film feels too much like a miniseries cut down to a very long feature length.

Cinema – and the world in general – has largely overlooked the Jenisch people, a Germanic-speaki
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