I've just been at the cinema in down town Prague watching this film.
Not due to the poster I found very Holywood old-fashioned heroic
style. Not due to the high level starring which remind me that most
of those high starring French films are usually pathetic. But just
because there are not so many films in my French mother tongue in a
city like Prague. And because I love Adjani, Depardieu and Rappenau's
Cyrano. Then I decided to write up this small comment because I think
I really don't agree with the comment main stream on this film on imdb.
I was not disappointed. The film just look like the poster. The
characters are just as stupid as they look like. For a while I
thought Adjani would be like a caricature -- just a funny character
you can laugh at. No she is not! For example when she decides to tell
Depardieu she is the one who murdered the fat one she killed at the
beginning of the film then come the violins in a big fat pathetic
music which should make you cry and realize Adajani's character is a
deeper person as she looks like. Maybe this was humor at the 10th
level but I am sorry my sense of humor is not that high! If I want to
see some funny French film on the WWII I watch once again La Grande
Vadrouille! It is definitively more fun! I have also read on imdb
that Lemoine is making a great performance in this film. I have to
say I have never seen a so bad acting! (Well I have never seen any Ed
Wood's film). Nevertheless the film is good filmed with a lot of good
(very costly) scenes like the one with the Pantheon in the morning
when the German army arrives at Paris or when the refugees settle down
on a bridge in Bordeaux. I think Rappeneau is a good filmmaker but
that he does better with a good script. It was easy with Cyrano. He
had not to write the dialogs!
I give 1/10.
Not due to the poster I found very Holywood old-fashioned heroic
style. Not due to the high level starring which remind me that most
of those high starring French films are usually pathetic. But just
because there are not so many films in my French mother tongue in a
city like Prague. And because I love Adjani, Depardieu and Rappenau's
Cyrano. Then I decided to write up this small comment because I think
I really don't agree with the comment main stream on this film on imdb.
I was not disappointed. The film just look like the poster. The
characters are just as stupid as they look like. For a while I
thought Adjani would be like a caricature -- just a funny character
you can laugh at. No she is not! For example when she decides to tell
Depardieu she is the one who murdered the fat one she killed at the
beginning of the film then come the violins in a big fat pathetic
music which should make you cry and realize Adajani's character is a
deeper person as she looks like. Maybe this was humor at the 10th
level but I am sorry my sense of humor is not that high! If I want to
see some funny French film on the WWII I watch once again La Grande
Vadrouille! It is definitively more fun! I have also read on imdb
that Lemoine is making a great performance in this film. I have to
say I have never seen a so bad acting! (Well I have never seen any Ed
Wood's film). Nevertheless the film is good filmed with a lot of good
(very costly) scenes like the one with the Pantheon in the morning
when the German army arrives at Paris or when the refugees settle down
on a bridge in Bordeaux. I think Rappeneau is a good filmmaker but
that he does better with a good script. It was easy with Cyrano. He
had not to write the dialogs!
I give 1/10.