Word: depardieu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elaborate inhuman maze, but as a series of small victories and small defeats. At this year's New York Film Festival, Godard gave the world his Every Man for Himself, and not very many wanted it. Truffaut gave them The Last Metro, complete with Cartherine Deneuve and Gerald Depardieu, and everyone sighed. In France The Last Metro has been lavishly garnished with awards and is a huge financial success. It is proof, some would like to think, that nice guys can finish first. It is unfortunately, though, also proof that the line between the compassionate and the superficial is very...
...Marion (Catherine Deneuve) has fixed up a secret apartment for him beneath the theater's stage. Steiner listens to rehearsals and directs a new production by giving his notes to his wife during her nightly visits. By day, she tries to cope with her bumptious leading man (Gerard Depardieu), who is involved in the Resistance, and the affection that grows between them almost unconsciously. The chief menace is a smart, epicene drama critic and Nazi collaborator who senses the supposedly exiled Steiner may be near at hand...
...members' innocence. Aside from Marion, none knows of Steiner's substage presence. But a larger innocence is also at work: theatrical unworldliness. There may be a war on, but the ambitious little ingenue is still trying to advance her career by fair means or foul; Depardieu has to try to bed the costume designer; and Deneuve's attentions are divided between her inconvenient connubial obligations and her need to preserve her image and her threatened theater. Such preoccupations armor them against the ugliness of life under the Nazis. They will do what they imagine God put them...
Deneuve, more beautiful than ever, displays a knowing humanity, and a sensuality she rarely shows in film, where she has been used more as icon than actress. When she and Depardieu finally acknowledge their passion for each other, there is a sheer eroticism-without so much as a button being unbuttoned-that one finds in few movie love scenes...
...wife, children, and mistress but a wimpy, play-by-the-rules kiss-ass in the office. Nicole Garcia's Janine represents that curious person you know well but who is either brilliant and wily or a complete and utter moron--and you can't decide which it is. Gerard Depardieu, oddly enough, looks more like Cro-Magnon Man in a three-piece suit than he does in his usual dirty t-shirt. But his primitive good looks help in his appearing appropriately uncomfortable in his high-powered, corporate surroundings...