RETALIATION

Today's NYTimes Best Film was the second half of Ophul's

Le Chagrin et la Pitie / The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

Part One, which I saw yesterday, is the historical setup for Part Two, a more personal account of The Resistance and how it worked.

Very good.

Living witnesses of an era which I have read a great deal about. The guys in the photo started a cell from scratch. The one on the right was caught/denounced and then escaped from the Germans during a death march.

This documentary is very well constructed. It is never 'slow' and never gets ahead of itself.

Watch Maurice Chevalier squirm as the war ends and he has to justify his collaboration. There is a lot of that. Normal people.

I would not mind seeing it again. That makes it a 4 out of Netflix5.