Vive la fraud! This scathingly ironic, deeply disturbing film takes its cue from a remark by troubling protagonist Albert Dehousse (Mathieu Kassovitz). "The best lives are the ones we make up," observes Albert, and he should know. Albert spends most
of WWII in an apathetic haze with his collaborationist mother, rousing himself only when he discovers that his new wife and her family are --
quel horreur! -- involved with the Resistance. Decamping for Paris on the eve of the Liberation, Albert finds a city full of collaborators and
cynical profiteers scrambling to provide convincingly heroic answers to that all-important question: "And just what did
you ...
Released:
1995
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins