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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100San Francisco ChronicleSan Francisco ChronicleA terrific documentary about forbidden love in the most heinous of places.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumGentle study in human resilience and luck.
- 80Film ThreatFilm ThreatIf you enjoy learning about the Holocaust and how dark a time it was, or you just like a good love story, then check this documentary out.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceAt once tender and tough-minded, Steal a Pencil for Me offers a useful corrective to the sentimental prevailing notion that the Shoah only happened to saints.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirThere have been dozens of Holocaust documentaries, and one could well argue that the world doesn't need another. But Michèle Ohayon's Steal a Pencil for Me offers a simple human story of dignity, levity and romance.
- What makes Ms. Ohayon’s movie special is its recognition that epic horrors don’t erase private dramas.
- There's incredible feeling behind Steal A Pencil For Me--enough to sustain two lives throughout unimaginable hardship--but the film doesn't bring much of it to the surface.
- 60VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonFortunately, helmer Michele Ohayon ("Cowboy del Amor") treats her tricky subject matter with sufficient sensitivity to keep doc from ever seeming offensively flip or overly sentimental.
- 30Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallChicago ReaderAndrea GronvallAlthough their love is undeniably a blessing, I was disconcerted watching the elderly couple smile and chuckle today as they recall their daily letters and secret meetings in the midst of such wide-scale death.