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L Lacombe Lucien (1974)
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Lacombe Lucien (1974)

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Country: FR
Technical: col 141m
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément

Synopsis:

During the war a peasant boy in the South of France tries to join the Resistance, but is rejected and becomes a Vichy policeman instead.

Review:

The camera's implacable gaze surveys the cruelties of collaboration reinforced by prejudice and juxtaposes them with the cruelties of nature. The protagonist is humanized despite his actions (he saves a Jewish girl he loves from deportation), and his impassiveness, because he acts purely on impulse (Malle's casting of a non-professional here reaps special rewards). The film caused some hostility at the time, as if Malle was saying that collaboration was nothing remarkable and depended merely on which path was the most convenient or advantageous to the individual. The backlash was partly responsible for his leaving France.

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Country: FR
Technical: col 141m
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément

Synopsis:

During the war a peasant boy in the South of France tries to join the Resistance, but is rejected and becomes a Vichy policeman instead.

Review:

The camera's implacable gaze surveys the cruelties of collaboration reinforced by prejudice and juxtaposes them with the cruelties of nature. The protagonist is humanized despite his actions (he saves a Jewish girl he loves from deportation), and his impassiveness, because he acts purely on impulse (Malle's casting of a non-professional here reaps special rewards). The film caused some hostility at the time, as if Malle was saying that collaboration was nothing remarkable and depended merely on which path was the most convenient or advantageous to the individual. The backlash was partly responsible for his leaving France.


Country: FR
Technical: col 141m
Director: Louis Malle
Cast: Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément

Synopsis:

During the war a peasant boy in the South of France tries to join the Resistance, but is rejected and becomes a Vichy policeman instead.

Review:

The camera's implacable gaze surveys the cruelties of collaboration reinforced by prejudice and juxtaposes them with the cruelties of nature. The protagonist is humanized despite his actions (he saves a Jewish girl he loves from deportation), and his impassiveness, because he acts purely on impulse (Malle's casting of a non-professional here reaps special rewards). The film caused some hostility at the time, as if Malle was saying that collaboration was nothing remarkable and depended merely on which path was the most convenient or advantageous to the individual. The backlash was partly responsible for his leaving France.

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