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Ken R Current French writers and moviemakers seem to have discovered their collective guilt regarding France's shameful collaboration with the Nazis during WW2. Now it seems they want to make amends by drawing out and highlighting those brave folk that actually did fight back under dreadful odds. This story claims to feature exploits carried out by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and follows a group of hand-picked women, trained under Churchill's wartime initiative to undermine the merciless German advancement. This is high power daring do and can, at times, be a hard watch as these dedicated women risk their safety, lives, and families, to complete their deadly tasks. This powerful French production led to other recent British films being made on this theme and while the screenplay may have been slightly sensationalized, it's inspired by the exploits of Lise de Baissac (Lise Villameur), from Mauritius (then a British colony). The cast are suitably impressive, as are the production values and note-worthy music score by prolific French composer Bruno Coulais. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/20/22 Full Review Audience Member Watchable and entertaining. No Hollywood glitz, Thank Heavens. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Dick C During the Invasion War "R" to "U", it's an excellent timing motion picture to watch Female Agents, 2008 (French: Les Femmes de l'ombre)... My Cantonese Old Saying: Good will always prevail over evil. (邪不勝正)... though we have to sacrifice... Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/19/22 Full Review richard i Unfortunately close to being a parody at times, though quite guilelessly frank about French spinelessness during the Second World War. Really seems to do a disservice to the very women it is supposed to honour. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Excellent fact-based historical thriller. Espionage that had a fateful impact on ending WWII. Very realistic and not glamorous stuff..some very gritty torture scenes but mostly in-depth look at how humans behave under extreme pressure. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member When I watch WWII movies, I prefer realism. The fantastic plot turns were absurd here, more akin to Mission Impossible. When the plans go wrong, suddenly they adapt with new uniforms to a different creative plot; a new Nazi uniform here, a nurse there, a hotel maid yet again. Women with no experience, suddenly develop the skills to be cool trained assassins and execute people like they've been doing it for years. Incorrect uniforms on German enlisted men. A warm and likable German officer who keeps his word and is trusted to do so. This movie could not ever represent some real activities, and does a grave injustice to something that might have occurred in some way. I am not sure if the problem is that the writer and director have emulated the wrong movies here. But this is completely implausible. Don't waste your time seeing it. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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