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Plot: A boy is rejected for the French resistance and joins the Gestapo instead.
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MCT:June 13, 2008
Well-made film about the banality of evil. Pierre Blaise gives a fantastic performance. Not for the squeamish.
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MCT:April 30, 2008
I just trashed Les Amants, which is also by Malle. But Lacombe Lucien, based on a true case, is a TV Movie at its best. A young French provinical youth is rejected by the French Resistance, and so joins up with the local Nazi collaborators instead. He is taken under their wing and becomes a kind of golden boy, but also faces the consequences of their brutal politics in an almost Faustian way.
Lacombe Lucien is filmed with great restraint and close obversation of character and locality by Malle, hence my calling it a TV movie of the highest order, as they tend to be good on these things. Perhaps the best sign of its understated power is that Malle was allegedly villified by many French back in the 1970's, who preferred not to think of their collaborators with such honesty and clarity. -
MCT:February 12, 2008The film is interesting in the sense that for once we see the other side. Here no courageous resistant, just a bunch of idiotic, violent fascists. But the film is really not good. The camera work dramatically lacks imagination, the characters are dull and the story has next to no interest.
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MCT:June 24, 2007
Young Lucien wants to join the French Resistance, but he's too immature. No problem, the Gestapo's hiring, and it can get so boring during wartime in a small, provincial town.
This film shocked France with its taboo subject of collaboration. They say that anyone can become a torturer. That is where this film's power lies -- Louis Malle lets us confront our heart of darkness. Devastating and unforgettable. -
MCT:May 20, 2007One of the most interesting and thought-provoking films of all time. An superb look at WWII collaboration.
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