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Today's film was The Last Metro (1980)

This is a good film. Takes some time to digest but the performances keep us in tune.

World War Two is so far away from me now that it is hard to remember its impact.

Films like this keep it fresh in my memory.

This was not my situation at all. I was safe within the national boundaries.

My Dad enlisted in the Navy. So my experience was remote but nevertheless traumatic. Formative.

Here a theater owner, a Jew takes up hiding in the cellar of the theater.

The plot, such as it is, depends on maintaining the subterfuge while performing plays with the Krauts in attendance.

Catherine Deneuve and the young Gerard Depardieu. A Truffaut film.

I have seen it several times and hence it has earned a 5 out of Netflix5 rating from me.

Labels: films