The Blood of Others
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Time Out says
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
Release details
UK release:
1984
Duration:
130 mins
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Cast:
Micheline Presle, John Vernon, Kate Reid, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Alexandra Stewart, Stéphane Audran, Sam Neill, Michael Ontkean, Jodie Foster, Samuel Fuller
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