June Zero

There’s a bit of vengeful comedy when the cinematographer Yaron Scharf introduces Eichmann feet first on the toilet over the sounds of Beethoven’s “Pathétique.”

Though each of the plotlines in “June Zero” stir up ethical questions, its primary approach is to look at people living their lives while an extraordinary event comes to its climax. That leaves the movie open to multiple, marvelous interpretations...

The film ponders what it means to have the power to distort and weaponize collective memory.

This is a film with questions, not answers. Its tangents are like those of any meaty conversation. And it’s a conversation worth having.

It's certainly not like anything else you've seen on this topic, and worth a look for that reason.

"June Zero” sticks to its characters’ specific experiences of these events. But the resourceful narrative, with some surprising grace notes, tends to invite questioning and reflection.

While it is undoubtedly narratively flawed, June Zero is a fascinating film for the questions and issues it evokes, and the way Jake Paltrow decides to deal with them on screen.

When all is said and done, June Zero portrays a historic period in Israel in a way that's different from the history books.

June Zero is an unusual film based on an interesting idea that it doesn’t quite know how to carry out.

Paltrow's movie unsettles, never shrinking from complexity as it details how a major trial impacted the lives of ordinary Israelis.