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French Cinema and the Occupation



The Last Metro by Francois Truffaut, with Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean PoiretOn June 3-4, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will conclude its excellent series "French Cinema and the Occupation."

The June 3 double-bill will be Le Dernier Métro / The Last Metro (1980) and Une affaire de femmes / Story of Women (1988). Nominated for a Best-Foreign Language Film Academy Award, Le Dernier Métro is a first-rate drama about the French theater world during the Nazi occupation. Directed by François Truffaut, the film stars Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu.

Story of Women by Claude Chabrol, with Isabelle Huppert, Francois Cluzet, Nils Tavernier, Marie TrintignantClaude Chabrol's grim drama Une affaire de femmes stars Isabelle Huppert as the last woman to be sentenced to death in France. Her crime? She was an abortionist. Unlike the recent Vera Drake, Une affaire de femmes, is unsentimental and unsparing — and so is Huppert's mesmerizing portrayal of the housewife and mother turned abortionist during the Vichy regime.

On June 4, LACMA will screen Bertrand Tavernier's 170-minute Laissez-passer / Safe Conduct, a drama about Continental Films, a French movie-producing company launched by the Germans during the occupation. The film stars Jacques Gamblin and Denis Podalydès.

 

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1 Comment to French Cinema and the Occupation

  1. isabellehuppertfan
    March 9, 2008 | Permalink

    Isabelle is the greatst actress ever. EVER.

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