Occupied Paris. Stage actress Marion Steiner hides her Jewish director husband Lucas in the cellar of the theatre they run together, where he directs in secret the play Marion is attempting to stage with her oddball band of thespians, all the while attempting to reconcile the attraction she has for newcomer and leading man Bernard Granger. Directed by Francois Truffault in 1981.
Romantic, witty, beautifully shot. Catherine Deneuve is uncompromisingly elegant; burly Gerard Depardieu is clumsily charming. Virtually any story told in Nazi-occupied anywhere benefits from the added element of tension, danger, and paranoia, and The Last Metro's just-trying-to-get-by Paris plays host to a number of varying attitudes in the face of occupation and defeat. An odd pacing makes it a bit hard to predict when it's going to end, but that might have something to do with the language barrier. Still, a great watch start to finish.
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