Tuesday Talkback: The Role of Animals in The Zookeeper’s Wife
In my April 4th talkback on Niki Caro’s The Zookeeper’s Wife, the audience and I considered the film’s use of history to comment on the present. Just as significant, however, was the film’s sustained animal motif in its commentary on the Holocaust. The film tells the true story of Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who operate…