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Film Analysis Of Cafe Nagler

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With its humor tone and delicate structure, Café Nagler questions the relationship between history and ourselves: to what extent does individual/familial memory inform a family history, whether or not it coincides with the historical reality? As a “mirror” of representing the family history, do family photographs and autobiographical-family documentary films faithfully reflect the image of the family and individuals in it, or do they distort it? What is “real” after all, if historical existence itself becomes unreliable and unapproachable?
The film starts with Kaplansky having an afternoon tea with her grandmother Naomi Kaplansky, using tableware sets from Café Nagler. The grandmother patiently corrects her granddaughter’s manner of drinking

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