Le Dernier Métro (The Last Metro) (1980)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 2
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Critic Reviews: 3
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 1
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Movie Info
The Last Metro is set virtually in its entirety in a crumbling French theatre. During the Nazi occupation, Jewish director Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent) hides in the basement of the theatre, while his wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) stars in its latest production. Marion is enamored of leading man Bernard Granger (Gerard Depardieu), and he with her, but they resist temptation out of respect to her husband. When she is given a choice between loyalty to her husband and to her countrymen, her
Jun 1, 1980 Wide
Mar 24, 2009
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Cast
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Catherine Deneuve
Marion Steiner -
Gérard Depardieu
Bernard Granger -
Jean Poiret
Jean-Loup Cottins -
Heinz Bennent
Lucas Steiner -
Andrea Ferreol
Arlette Guillaume -
Paulette Dubost
Germaine Fabre -
Sabine Haudepin
Nadine Marsac -
Jean-Louis Richard
Daxiat -
Maurice Risch
Raymond Boursier -
Christian Baltauss
Bernard's Replacement -
Pierre Belot
Hotel Porter -
Marcel Berbert
Merlin -
Richard Bohringer
Gestapo Officer -
René Dupré
M. Valentin -
Jean-Pierre Klein
Christian Leglise -
Franck Pasquier
Jacquot/Eric -
Renata
Greta Borg -
Martine Simonet
Martine Sénéchal, Mar... -
Alain Tasma
Marc -
Rose Thiery
Jacquot's Mother -
Eva Truffaut
Secretary -
Jacob Weizbluth
Rosen -
Jessica Zucman
Rosette Goldstern -
Laszlo Szabo
Lieutnant Bergen -
Jean-José Richer
Rene Bernardini
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All Critics (22) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (2) | DVD (10)
Truffaut balances his hopeful plot on a tightrope of coincidences and narrow escapes that horrifically suggest the abyss that engulfed so many men and women of the artistic and political underground. In French.
Top CriticA dazzlingly subversive work.
At times, the film seems to be about the reasons for its own emptiness.
Political and romantic intrigues run parallel and then intersect in Truffaut's critically acclaimed and commercially popular Oscar-nominated WWII saga, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu.
a simple melodrama that misses its marks and shies away from any potential substance.
although not one of Truffaut's strongest works, it is nevertheless a striking and engaging film, one that reflects the great filmmaker's love of artistic creation and its role in maintaining humanity
As a portrait of a time, Last Metro is a warmly performed and deftly shot trifle.
A loving account of the literal and figurative romance of the stage, even under the most trying of social circumstances. [Blu-ray]
The muted colors give the film a haunted look, like it was a film made in the 1940s.
Accomplished and beautifully-done.
The Last Metro puts on vivid display Francois Truffaut's humanism and artistic craft.
Beautiful, colorful late Truffaut -- extremely powerful.
'The Last Metro provides a mesmerizing and realistic view of life under German Occupation and ranks as the best of Truffaut's later films'
With few of the director's idiosyncrasies, this is not one of Truffaut's more groundbreaking films.
Audience Reviews for Le Dernier Métro (The Last Metro)
Super Reviewer
What I liked most about Truffaut's work here is his ability to link the external political conflict with the action of the stage production. This isn't a play within a play for its own sake. Rather, when Granger's stage character says that love is both a joy and a painful, we understand that existence in occupied France is also both a joy and painful. These characters are happy to be alive but unhappy with how they are living.
On the other hand, it's occasionally meandering, as though Truffaut knows that Nazis are often over-used in film. I remember watching Bent and thinking, "I get it; they were pure evil. What else you got to say?" Truffaut seems to recognize this problem, but he isn't able to fill the void with other more compelling action. What he does find is a rather simple romantic melodrama, and though it's well-acted by Depardieu and Deneuve, it ultimately falls short.
Overall, The Last Metro is a good, but not great, film.
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Foreign Titles
- Die letzte Metro (DE)
- The Last Metro (Le Dernier metro) (UK)
