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Pierre Blaise,
Aurore Clément,
Holger Loewenadler,
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Louis Malle
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: Criterion
: Drama, Foreign, Coming of Age , Criterion Collection
: 138 min.
: French
: English
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With a superb music score by Django Reinhardt, this is a Louis Malle film about the German occupation of France. Based on his own experiences in France during the occupation, Malle's film does not paint a pretty picture of the French Resistance and eventually he emigrated to America because of the critical reaction to this film. Essentially the tale of a young boy who wants to join the Resistance but is shunned by them because of his youth, he joins the Gestapo. Unfortunately, he then falls in love with a young Jewish girl. Push comes to shove and he suddenly has the unsympathetic Resistance and the Gestapo hot on his trail. Not a pretty picture of either side. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide
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by Texan99
September 8, 2010 - 12:01 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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| I watched this movie when it was released and I was not yet twenty. It disappeared for a long time after that. I kept trying to find a copy, because I never could get it out of my mind. To my astonishment, when I watched it again after my 50th birthday it was exactly as I remembered it, and every bit as shattering. Lucien is a stolid, rather dim French Everyman with a moral sense so brutal and stunted as almost to be absent -- but not quite -- you can't just dismiss him. It's never clear how much he really understands of what's going on around him, though he nearly always understands just enough to shock us with his choices. In contrast, the Jewish tailor and his enchanting daughter that Lucien befriends and exploits are vibrantly intelligent and subtle. |
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