Reviews of The Last Metro
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asuraf
20Feb10
Francois Truffaut’s theater companion to “Day for Night”, mixed together as a tragi-comedy set during the Nazi occupation, with big stars (Deneuve, Depardieu) and a careful lighting gloss from master lensman Nestor Almendros, has a certain respect for putting on a good show, and heightened with life-and-death game stakes, and just a slight inkling of political suggestion, Truffaut is genuinely sincere (though being the least ironic of the New Wavers, that was never a problem). This isn’t one of his great films, but as always, Criterion does a terrific job presenting it, with an excellent high-def transfer, nearly 70 minutes of interviews, and two commentary tracks.
- Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
Maicol Andrés Ordoñez
30May09
Truffaut’s film are the most subversive of the new wave school because there is a purity to his cinema. He doesn’t obsess over post-modern statements in style or bizarre chronology or any of the obvious new wave stuff that most people recognize as brilliant. He is a storyteller through and through. He tells personal stories that are entertaining enough for everyone to watch. This is why he is a master on the ranks of Polanski and Hitchcock. This is his most lavish, polished, and mainstream film event and yet it still is 100% a Truffaut film.
THE LAST METRO is a gorgeous movie. Perhaps its not as wild or as intense or as awkward as his previous films but its exactly the movie’s sense of calm that makes this a unique Occupation picture. It’s an ode to theater and to actors and to film, about how it can keep our heads together when we really need that the most. His movies are strictly love letters. To women, to men, to children, to love, to heartbreak, and to art.
- Currently 5.0/5 Stars.