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Bookmark this pageThe Blood of Others (1984)
Director: Claude Chabrol
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From Time Out Film Guide
Chabrol was an unlikely choice to film Simone de Beauvoir's 1945 novel about moral growth and sacrifice during the Occupation - he being more your man for moral decay, egotism and such. His response to the heroine's progress from frivolity to engagement wavers between disinterested and uninterested. And considering the Mills & Boon trimmings one sort of sympathises, what with a lovelorn Nazi (Neill), a lovelorn resistance fighter (Ontkean) and Foster - patently modern American - at the centre. An occasional scene catches fire, but mostly it's an uninspired plod through very routine material. This is the theatrical version of a three-hour TV mini-series.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Chabrol
Producer: Denis Héroux, John Kemeny
Cast: Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Stéphane Audran, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Kate Reid, John Vernon, Micheline Presle, Samuel Fuller full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 130 mins
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