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Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien is among the best things to come out of this groundswell of interest in the war years, and one of the best films of recent years by any standard. Malle's recent film Murmur of the Heart, was an uncannily successful film about adolescence and...
The people of Malle's France cannot be easily divided into two sets of people, one innocent and one guilty, in the kind of division set up by Gaullist myths and by any government trying to administer a system of justice. There is a continuum ranging from the full-time...
The intense beauty of the final scenes prevents us from feeling it is a false comfort they are enjoying. Instead, it seems as if Lucien has at last been lured by chance into making one right move in his life. It's as if he always could have been this...
The war wrecks some of this, allows some of it to happen. Lucien would probably never have become an outlaw if it hadn't been for the war. Malle focuses not on great events themselves but on how great events enter and overpower the lives of individuals. We can never...
Boston Film Festival. A very respectable series, including too many films to list here. The highlight is perhaps Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien, a new film about French collaboration during World War II. But also Attica, a Laughton film, a DeBroca film, Max von Sydow as Steppenwolf, a Boorman film...