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Lacombe Lucien (1974)

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With a superb music score by Django Reinhardt, this is a Louis Malle film about the German occupation of France. Based on his own experiences in France during the occupation, Malle's film does not paint a pretty picture of the French Resistance and eventually he emigrated to America because of the critical reaction to this film. Essentially the tale of a young boy who wants to join the Resistance but is shunned by them because of his youth, he joins the Gestapo. Unfortunately, he then falls in

R, 2 hr. 16 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Louis Malle, Patrick Modiano

Mar 14, 2006

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All Critics (6) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (0)

This coolly detached WWII chronicle, which is critical of the French Resistance, is one of Louis Malles' strongest and most personal films.

June 30, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

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.

August 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Writer | Comment
Cinema Writer

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

August 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

A controversial WWII drama about the German occupation of France that has a young French Gestapo policeman romance a young Jewess.

October 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie 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.

March 27, 2006 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Lacombe Lucien

In "Lacombe Lucien," it is 1944 in Southwest France where Lucien(Pierre Blaise) works in a nursing home. Given five days off, he returns home to his mother(Gilberte Rivet) and finds things radically changed with his father in a German prison camp. Bored, he tries to sign up with the French resistance but is denied by

January 21, 2009
Harlequin68
Walter M.

Super Reviewer

Rich absurdities abound.

March 10, 2008
smootysveen

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