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‘Evolution’ Review: It’s Two Steps Forward, One Step Back in Stunning Portrait of Holocaust Survivors

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Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticBuilding on what has come before, the opening act of Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber’s “Evolution” recalls a monologue from the Hungarian duo’s previous film, “Pieces of a Woman,” when a Holocaust-hardened Jewish matriarch played by Ellen Burstyn repeats the mythology of her own survival — the idea that she somehow chose to live when so many around her were murdered.

She tells the story of being hidden under the floorboards as an infant, and how even the doctor considered her a lost cause: “He picked me up by my feet and held me up like a chicken and said, ‘If she tries to lift her head, then there’s hope.’”In “Evolution” — which Mundruczó adapted for the screen from his longtime collaborator’s logistically.

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