Last Metro, The
Last Metro, The
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Truffaut's poignant, compelling drama, set in Nazi-occupied Paris, unfolds in the Theatre Montmartre, as a group of actors rehearse. But everyone harbors a secret. Catherine Deneuve visits her exiled Jewish husband; the leading man is a member of the Resistance. Touching and tense. In French with English Francois Truffaut---France---1980---135 mins.

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  | Diane#7

Unforgettably beautiful and elegantly talented, Catherine Deneuve simply sends Le Dernier Métro off the charts. Her powerfully believable performance as the savvy and composed Marion Steiner who hides her Jewish husband Lucas Steiner in the basement of their theatre late during the Nazi occupation of Paris teases out many facets of French pride and fears during this time of national trial. Mme Steiner’s dissatisfaction over the screen life left behind, her responsibilities to a husband whom at times she knows all too well, her wavering devotion while flirting with a passing fling, and her final reconciliation to irrevocable change serve as a commentary on the nation’s evolving response to courting and betrayal by Nazi occupiers, and on France’s ultimate survival. Director François Truffaut’s clever plot twist at the end with stage drama portrayed in screen drama achieves a final delight and serves as a tour de force for Mme Steiner as well as for Deneuve, magnificent and gorgeous even after 20 years in film. Supporting actors Jean Poiret as stage director Jean-Loup Cottins and Heinz Bennent as Lucas Steiner turn in equally convincing performances and head a talented cast, with one exception. A young Gérard Depardieu unconvincingly portrays one of his many roles as a misunderstood and only partially successful character.

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