Tragedy and Levity: Philippe Mora, Family History and 'Monsieur Mayonnaise'

Trevor Graham's film about artist Philippe Mora, whose French-Jewish family immigrated to Australia in the 1950s, documents a journey of self-discovery that simultaneously recounts the larger history of Holocaust survivors. Lauren Carroll Harris teases out the various possible readings of and thematic threads contained in Monsieur Mayonnaise.

Additional keywords:
World War II, Mirka Mora, biopic, biography, heritage.