Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 03/24/2009
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 131 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Criterion
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 dilemma offers two logical solutions--both of which are acted out on stage during the play. This
Pirandellian ending aside,
The Last Metro is one of the few films to accurately capture the feeling of what it was like to live in Paris under the thumb of the Nazis.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
