My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021)

'Mijn beste vriendin Anne Frank' is a brilliant, touching, sad and beautiful movie about friendship, antisemitism, love, despair, evil, and hope. The performances of the two young actresses (Josephine Arendsen and Aiko Beemsterboer) are absolutely stunning. The cinematography and the music of the movie are wonderful. Films about the Holocaust are always necessary because they bring a tiny voice to all the Jewish victims who were massacred, gassed and killed. I love that the actors speak Dutch and German in the movie, but I was a bit surprised that Hanneli Goslar's character didn't speak German with her parents (who were both German -she was 5 years old when they moved to Amsterdam). Overall, 'Mijn beste vriendin Anne Frank' is a beautiful and touching movie. The little girl who plays Gabi is very cute and a great actress too. Never forget. We remember. 10/10.

Fmovies: The story of Anne Frank is a heartbreaking one but the way this movie was filmed was awful. The constant back-and-forth with the timeline was so annoying I only made it through half the movie. I don't understand why half way through they're still showing flashbacks that pertain to current event. Just show it chronically. I hate to criticize the girls but the acting was terrible too. There are plenty of movies that show Anne Frank and events of that time period that are way better than this garbage.

This story adds to the wellknown Anne Frank story, because it is told through the eyes of her best friend Hannah.

It gives you a very different look at the person who Anne Frank was (even if it is probably made a little lighter (or modern, language wise) then back then in the fourties That is not disturbing though.

It's too bad the translation for our foreign viewers are not that well. It should have Dutch subs and the original language to be heard, to get in to the tragedy more.

I found it an interesting, well acted and directed movie.

My Best Friend Anne Frank fmovies. Summary

Although it is not very novel, the film does provide the view of Anne Frank from one of her best friends, outside of her famous diary, and once again highlights the precariousness of life under the Nazi-fascist regimes, with little time that can mediate between the suffocating daily life that both lived in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, where they could still play at having projects, and the absolute horror of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to which they were deported.

Review:

This Dutch film by Ben Sombogaart recounts moments of the friendship between Hannah Goslar and Anne Frank during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam in 1942 and alternates them with Hannah's captivity in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944, where Anne was also a prisoner. Frank but in another sector.

Hannah Goslar is a real character. As in the case of Anne Frank, after the rise of Nazism in Germany, her family emigrated to the Netherlands. The two had known each other since 1933 and were schoolmates. The film has the merit of providing Hannah's point of view for the painting of a restless, audacious and sexually awakened Ana at a time prior to the one reflected in most of her famous Diary (where Ana names her as Lies Goslar), and also on the later one in Bergen-Belsen.

The contrast between what is seen in 1942 and the situation in 1944 could not be more devastating, since the story goes back and forth between both years and scenarios. Of course, in 1942 the Nazi occupation and its anti-Jewish racial laws made themselves felt in full force in Amsterdam. Clearly, the film reflects the uncertainty of the families of both friends and their uncertain plans for the future, under a sense of permanent threat and a siege that narrows due to unclear rules always violated by the Nazis and the deportations of Jews that were already taking place. But despite everything, Hannah and Ana manage to maintain a daily life full of games typical of girls their age, where they begin to glimpse life projects...

In Hannah's case, her family consisted of her father, her pregnant mother, and a very young sister. And it is illustrative to complete the panorama, a newsreel of the time that the film includes.

The "transit" sector of the camp where Hannah and part of her family were imprisoned was less severe than others in the same camp, and the film explains why. The film soberly and harshly reflects the horrors of that concentration camp life that nevertheless had some margin of hope and where she tries to communicate with her friend. The performance of the young actresses Josephine Arendsen and Aiko Beemsterboer (as Hannah and Ana, respectively) as well as the rest of the cast, is solvent and successful reconstruction of the period.

It is true that My Best Friend Anne Frank does not provide too much news about Nazism in general and about Anne Frank in particular, but it does highlight once again the precariousness of life under fascist regimes, with the little time that can mediate between the suffocating everyday life of occupied Amsterdam and the absolute horror of the Nazi camps.

Interesting to see a film based around the life of Anne Frank , but not solely all about her and for a change Anne is not portrayed as a complete angel.

However it's a film worth watching alone for the performance of Josephine Arendsen who was superb as Hannah Goslar.

This is a fabulous fabulous movie and story, there already many of Anne Frank biopic movie out there but it's quite strange that nobody ever told the story about her best friend Hanneli Goslar which her story is not far fascinating than Anne Frank story, and i was so glad finally somebody came up with the idea and recognize it, My Best Friend Anne Frank can be a great yet heartbreaking example of real and true friendship, praise to Aiko Beemsterboer for her potrayal as Anne Frank because she is so good, but the one that more than so good, she is mesmerising, she was incredible, and she was Josephine Arendsen as Hanneli Goslar herself, she was just too good, the tension, the music, and especially how they decided to put the timeline of the story not straight forward from the beginning till the end, but from the past to present then go back to the past and so on, and it works perfectly and it didn't messed up the care feeling that i have on both Anne and Hanneli, overall My Best Friend Anne Frank is another heartbreaking Nazi era movie but it's also another Schindler's List, so just watch the movie, it's fantastic.