As a sidebar to the Iran-Holocaust thread: The Derbs’ movie rental two weekends ago was Enemies: A Love Story, which we somehow missed when it came out in 1989. The movie’s about some Holocaust survivors in late-1940s New York. You don’t see any of the horrors; they are just lurking behind the backdrop of the movie. This indirect approach tells you things you don’t get looking at the thing head-on.

The movie’s beautifully done. I’m surprised it isn’t better known.