The Last Metro (PG)

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Agree with John not your reviewer whose review will put people off watching a film that stands the test of time and make its point clearer by making it in an understated way

Agree with John and not your review who is putting people off seeing a film which makes it point all the more for being understated

This review is too dismissive. The all-star cast is a pleasure to watch, everyone playing with a light touch. Truffaut’s mis en scene is beautifully constructed, his restless camera work, artful. True, Truffaut on French experience doesn’t compare with Fassbinder on German experience. No Gestapo horrors, no revelatory culpability, no ghastly retribution. It’s well know that the French cultural establishment sometimes collaborated with the Germans during the war and afterwards were silent or unrepentant about it. ‘Hermetic’ it is, but thirty years on, the film stands up well and at the least is an engaging star-vehicle ― and perhaps its hermeticism is more historically accurate than people would like to admit.