The Last Metro

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Will G @Wgoodeve 06/04/2025 Truffaut is a wonderful director. A great movie from France. It was nice to practice my French. It was controversial at times. It was historical. There was a neat scene about theater. See more June U @RT25621969 07/22/2024 It was bit long until the core parts of the theme were presented. Catherine Deneuve was very beautiful and played the main character well. Other actors also portrayed interesting characters well. It was interesting to see the difference between how an actress perceived herself and how people around her see her. See more Sue C @RomaBestTomato 02/02/2023 Too long, with an ambiguous ending, but Catherine Deneuve & Gerard Depardieu never looked better. See more William L @RT77267842 11/10/2021 If you hadn't told me that The Last Metro was directed by Truffaut, I wouldn't have guessed it; the film doesn't really carry many of the hallmarks of the well-loved director's more immediately recognizable works, but I suppose if he was too committed to the stylings of the French New Wave people would have called him rigid. Apparently the German occupation and French Resistance were very personal subjects for the director, and Truffaut had sought to make a film using the setting for several years. That makes it somewhat confusing that the narrative plays out the way it does, with a rather restrained love triangle providing melodramatic padding to a German occupation that feels less threatening than inconvenient. The most interesting aspect is the role of theatre and film not so much as art but as a lifestyle for those that create it, a political tool, and a respite for all in times of conflict and happiness alike; it's just not always easy to appreciate the romance of the stage when the emotional weight between characters packs so little punch. Certainly not bad, but not at the same level as the director's more famous work. (3/5) See more Cameron M @Cameron11 10/22/2020 Pretty disappointing Truffaut film. A very slow film that takes a long time to pick up any steam. The plot is interesting and there is some tension in the final act but I found the film to become quite boring especially the basement scenes. Nowhere near as good as Truffaut's Day For Night but it is passable. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture at the Oscars that year and, while I haven't seen the other nominees, I doubt they were worse than this film. See more 08/09/2020 Excellent fictional history of occupied Paris and communities trying to survive. Attention to detail in story and cinematography See more Read all reviews

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