IMDb plot summary: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Directed by François Truffaut. Starring Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poirot, and Andréa Ferréol.
This film is very effective in showing the small ways in which Nazi Germany chipped away at human rights and how that affected people who before this point might not have considered themselves political at all. We are watching a series of resistances here, both small and large, for all kinds of personal and political reasons. There's also a bit of a love story, but the movie isn't ABOUT that, and that love story resolution makes it even clearer that it is secondary to the broader story of resistance. The film's resolution, by the way, is an interesting choice, and without spoiling anything I just want to say I think it is a perfect little thematic wrap-up and works very well. François Truffaut has been hit-or-miss for me, but I appreciate this one a lot -- it is definitely a hit.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Last Metro > Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites
The Last Metro < Chronicle
The Last Metro > American Outlaws
The Last Metro > Mary Poppins Returns
The Last Metro > Dangerous Liaisons
The Last Metro < Center Stage
The Last Metro < Auntie Mame
The Last Metro < What the Deaf Man Heard
The Last Metro < Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
The Last Metro < An American Werewolf in London
The Last Metro < Kursk
The Last Metro > Children of Men
Final spot: #917 out of 3266, or 72%.
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