📽️ I am surprised by how much I enjoyed “Jojo Rabbit,” dir. Taika Waititi (Fox Searchlight, 2019)—its overall sensibility; the fine acting of the kids, whose lives are at the center of the film; the adults as more peripheral, with the exception of the mother, and even she appears well after the film begins, and she departs before it is over … The ten-year-old Jojo gets by in his alone time with an imaginary friend, Hitler. And then he discovers a Jewish girl hiding in his house.…
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