Hollywood may not make 'em like it used to, but Claude Berri has stepped into the breach with this defiantly old-fashioned testament to the power of love, set amidst the turmoil of WWII France. Based on
Il partiront dans l'ivress, the memoirs of
real-life French Resistance fighter Lucie Aubrac, Berri's film plays like formula fiction. The year is 1943 and Lucie and Raymond Aubrac (Carol Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil), maintain the façade of ordinary citizens while bombing trains and otherwise bedeviling the occupying Nazi forces and their
French allies. Much though they love their country, Lucie and Raymond love each other even more ferociously. She bluffs her way...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
116 mins