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“Vengeance Is Mine” weaves this web of mothers and daughters and God, of puritans and quiet Eastern Europeanism and “ethnics,” spun by Roemer, a German Jew who, as a boy, escaped the Holocaust on a Kindertransport train.

As with the patchwork faux Europeanism of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” or, more controversially, the miniaturized Japanophilia of his last feature, “Isle of Dogs,” Anderson practically specializes in attractive, magpie-spirited fakery.

“We are facing a crisis that is different from previous crises,” he told the Guardian – partly, he said, because of the unpredictable progression of the virus, partly because “Europeanism” has been weakened by other crises of the past decade.

Labour’s tepid Europeanism made way in 1979 for a leader who certainly had a greater interest in Europe.

“The politics of Brexit are more about a desire for increased sovereignty than a preference for Atlanticism over Europeanism,” said Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute.