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Bookmark this pageLa Ligne de Démarcation (1966)
Director: Claude Chabrol
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From Time Out Film Guide
If you believe his autobiography, Chabrol shot this picture in an alcoholic stupor, partly due to physical discomfort (on location in the mid-winter Jura countryside), but mainly because he felt no affinity with the material, a wartime resistance drama with daring escapes, heroic self-sacrifice and little moral complexity. And yet it seems a well-controlled, perfectly respectable piece, directed for its surface values and not undermined by any knowing winks at the audience (except perhaps in the scenes with leather-coated Gestapo agents Maury and Gégauff). It's a rural counterpart of L'Armée des Ombres, and although that comparison is by no means annihilating, it does point up the low intensity of Chabrol's involvement.Author: BBa
Cast & crew
Director: Claude Chabrol
Producer: Georges de Beauregard
Cast: Maurice Ronet, Jean Seberg, Daniel Gélin, Stéphane Audran, Jacques Perrin, Jean Yanne, Jean-Louis Maury, Paul Gégauff, Claude Berri full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 120 mins
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