The Last Metro
by François Truffaut
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Actor: Andréa Ferréol, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Paulette DubostDirector: François Truffaut
Cinematographer: Néstor Almendros
Producer: François Truffaut
Writer: François Truffaut
Editor: Martine Barraqué
Writer: Jean-Claude Grumberg
Writer: Suzanne Schiffman
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 131 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Fox Lorber
Movie Reviews of The Last Metro
Movie Review: The Last Metro captures the tension of occupied Paris
Summary: 5 Stars
Great cast- every single choice perfect. This won Best Foreign Film in 1980 & I still think it is one of the best films portraying that period in which the Germans occupied Paris. In the film Deneuve plays a well known French stage actress. She & her Jewish husband, a theatre playwright & director, own & run a theatre. Because the Nazis are occupying PARIS her husband lives beneath the stage in a room they have fixed for him. At night after each performance she goes down to bring him food & check on him. He is actually directing the play that is going on at present & he gives her notes & feedback on the play. Gereard Depardieu plays the lead opposite Deneuve in the play & the sexual tension that grows between him & Deneuve, coupled with the growing fear her husband will be discovered & hauled off to a work camp keep you on the edge of your seat the entire show. The movie is notable too in its presentation of the facts of daily life of Parisians under occupation- the black market for food, for shoes, the blackouts, the sirens, the lies that must be lived, the minor irritations that grow explosive. Jean Poiret who plays Deneuve's husband does as fine a job as Deneuve & Depardieu & Francois Truffaut's direction is at its best. I rewatch this film every few years & find it just as compelling each time.
Summary of The Last Metro
François Truffaut again tackles the elusive nature of creativity and the elusive creation in this thoughtful, sumptuous, 1980 film. Nominated for the Best Foreign Language film Oscar, and a winner of various Césars, The Last Metro is a tale of the theater in occupied France during World War II. Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve) manages the Theatre Montmarte in the stead of her Jewish husband, director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent). He has purportedly fled France but is really hiding out in the basement of the theater. The one hope to save the Montmarte is a new play starring the dashing Bernard Granger (Gérard Depardieu). The attraction between Marion and Bernard is palpable, and as usual Truffaut creates tension and drama from even the most casual of occurrences. The theme of the director locked away while his lover and his creation are appropriated by others makes for interesting Truffaut study, but first and foremost this is a well-spun romance. --Keith SimantonSimilar DVD Movies
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