Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
This coolly detached WWII chronicle, which is critical of the French Resistance, is one of Louis Malles' strongest and most personal films.
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Jay Antani, Cinema Writer
Malle's absolute faith in his skills as a storyteller and in the inherent power of this true story puts Lacombe, Lucien in the company of the best humanist portraits ever filmed.
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Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile
Superbly evocative of the period in both imagery and mood, Lacombe Lucien is a character study of a young man during a dark chapter in French history
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A controversial WWII drama about the German occupation of France that has a young French Gestapo policeman romance a young Jewess.
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Peter Canavese, Groucho Reviews
The collaborationist anti-hero finds Malle instantly broaching a cultural taboo, compounded when the traitorous young man forces himself into a sexual relationship with a not-entirely unyielding girl named France.
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Cast
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Pierre Blaiseas Lucien Lacombe -
Aurore Clementas France -
Holger Loewenadleras Albert Horn
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Therese Giehseas Bella Horn -
Stephane Bouyas Jean -
Loumi Iacobescoas Betty
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