His in-ring brutality is countered by raw vulnerability outside the ring, a burden shouldered by wife Miriam Wofsoniker (Vicky Krieps, “Phantom Thread”), who bears the weight of his PTSD triggers from fireworks to peepholes. Here’s hoping Foster is remembered come Oscar season, which I sadly doubt after seeing how Hugh Jackman was categorized for HBO’s “Bad Education.” Can we finally scrap the outdated notion of “made-for-TV movies” in our new streaming era? Serialized content deserves Emmys, while self-contained work deserves Oscars (like Foster here). Foster is unrecognizable as an emaciated Auschwitz prisoner before trading his scrawny frame for punch-drunk pounds the way that Robert De Niro famously did in his all-timer Oscar-winning portrait of Jake LaMotta in “Raging Bull.”
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After the war, he moves to America as a professional light heavyweight boxer from 1948 to 1949, only to hang up his gloves to sell produce in Brooklyn in an attempt to be a family man.īen Foster gives a tour-de-force performance, rivaling his best work in the modern crime western “Hell or High Water” (2016). In “The Survivor,” screenwriter Justine Juel Gillmer follows Polish native Harry Haft, who is split from his girlfriend and forced to box at Auschwitz in a literal fight for survival. Young’s “Triumph of the Spirit” (1989), which followed a Jewish boxer (Willem Dafoe) who splits from his girlfriend when their families are sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where Nazis force him to participate in boxing matches.
WTOP's Jason Fraley reviews 'The Survivor'Īmerican filmmaking doesn’t get more powerful than Martin Scorsese’s boxing biopic “Raging Bull” (1980) or Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust epic “Schindler’s List” (1993).ĭirector Barry Levinson combines both in the new film “The Survivor,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival where it was bought by HBO and finally drops next Wednesday timed with Yom HaShoah, Israel’s version of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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