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Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Director: Claude Berri
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Based on the true story of two Resistance heroes, Berri's typically meticulous WWII drama concerns the efforts of Lucie Aubrac to liberate her husband Raymond from Gestapo incarceration. While Bouquet and Auteuil are dependably solid, they never really achieve the chemistry that might have made this into a more moving love story; the real problem, however, lies in the leaden pacing, and Berri's superficial, somewhat repetitive screenplay, which offers no particularly revealing insights, let alone dramatic excitement. Not exactly bad, the film is rather dull, and serves mainly as a reminder of how grippingly Melville's L'Armée des Ombres treated similar material.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Berri
Producer: Patrick Bordier
Cast: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Patrice Chéreau, Eric Boucher, Jean-Roger Milo, Heino Ferch, Jean Martin, Pascal Greggory full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 116 mins
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