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'Miracle at St. Anna'

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On Aug. 12, 1944, a Nazi battalion in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema gunned down 560 men, women and children, a massacre that is re-enacted, along with a seemingly divine event, in "Miracle at St. Anna," an uneven blend of realism and fantasy. The movie is both vivid and baffling - which is to say, it was made by Spike Lee.

The film opens in 1983, when a postal worker wordlessly...

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