‘June Zero,’ Centered on the Eichmann Execution, Delivers History in a Kaleidoscopic Fashion
Director Jake Paltrow takes us to the periphery of events, albeit with characters who have (or will) become vital players in this tale of meting out justice. The film is held together by what can only be dubbed righteous didacticism.

“June Zero” is, to paraphrase Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a day that will not live in infamy. The chief image accompanying the new film by director and writer Jake Paltrow is a group of school boys eagerly huddled around a magazine. It’s a scandal sheet: The color is a lurid red, the type is humongous and the photo on front is of a topless woman whose breasts are nominally censored by two black stars. On the back cover is the photo of a dapper man in Nazi regalia, Adolph Eichmann. We are in Israel, 1962.
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