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Gabriel
25Oct12
If you go in with way different expectations the result is much more pleasurable; would definitely benefit from a second viewing for most people. A lot of my initial issues have already been listed but looking back at it it seems that's most only because I was looking at it from the wrong viewpoint throughout much of it.
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Jakob Larsson
2Aug12
Am I the only one that sees shades of Inglourious Basterds in this? Surely Tarantino drew inspiration from this, it'd be farfetched to say that he copied it because he didn't at all but drew inspiration - sure, Laurent looks a bit like Laurent, it's a theater instead of a cinema but the color palette and style is often the same even if this is far more withdrawn and doesn't really have a Brad Pitt scalping nazis.
Lorna Singh
3Jun12
A film about Paris under the Occupation that is slow,without drama and almost no character development.Plus,most glaring,an underused Gerard Depardieu. As if Truffaut thought celebrating theatre and Catherine Deneuve's beauty were enough. Not my favourite from the Great Truffaut.
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bennievermeer
29May12
'Le Dernier Métro' (1980) quietly evokes the underground as a place of refuge and relative safety in the fearful arena of occupied Paris in WWII. At the film's center is Catherine Deneuve in one of her great roles as the liaison between different worlds, aloof but struggling under tremendous strain. Read my full review: http://www.brnrd.net/blog/archive/2008/09/09/le-dernier-metro
McSmith
1Mar12
Truffaut attempts to synthesize stories of illicit romance, Resistance intrigue, and high-stakes theatre politics, but gives his viewers just messy tediousness.
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Judicial Joe
11Feb12
The mise-en-scene is lovely. Other than that, your average French WW2 drama that feels like a product of the pre-New Wave cinema of quality.
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Michael Harbour
16Jan12
Making art in Nazi occupied France. You'd think this would be more absorbing than it is but the passions of these artists seem rather muted.
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Colin Landon
24Jun11
Probably Truffaut's second best film. Very rich colors and set to depict Vichy France during the war, but doesn't depict the true misery of the everyday people during the time. The acting is very good, but the emotional tone of the film sways back and forth.
Sunday
23Mar11
There were many wonderful moments, but one that stuck with me was the German officer who wouldn't let her hand go. The earnest and sick concern on his part, her spiraling need to escape, and the Nazi decor sprawled everywhere up to that point... for a moment there the film was *corrosive* and I felt a hint of what it must have been like to live in occupied France.
John Hayden
15Aug10
My first Truffaut film and one I am eager to see again, full of theatricality (literally and figuratively), love and a seamless method about it. It just flows like silk, and engages some important ideas in a way that is neither a sentimental whitewash nor a typical dark tragedy.
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Danny Derakhshan
21Feb10
The first half was hard as hell to watch but it really gets better after the 1 hour mark, though I did check my watch the last 15 minutes. Its just very long but gratifying in the end.
Pierre-Yves Ducarre
7Dec09
Une telle tension, une telle tension. A en ouvrir la fenêtre en plein mois de décembre.
