Lacombe, Lucien (Criterion Collection) R
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DVD Details
- Theatrical Trailer
- In French with English Subtitle Translation
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 14, 2006
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: Criterion
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Aurore Clément | |
Directed by | Louis Malle |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
A generation after WWII, Louis Malle shed light on French collaborators
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Movie Habit
Rating: B+ --
This coolly detached WWII chronicle, which is critical of the French Resistance, is one of Louis Malles' strongest and most personal films.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/4 --
[Malle's film is] about a particular kind of human being, one capable of killing and hurting, one incapable of knowing or caring about his real motives, one who would be a prime catch for basic training and might make a good soldier and not ask questions.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Superbly evocative of the period in both imagery and mood, Lacombe Lucien is a character study of a young man during a dark chapter in French history
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Urban Cinefile
[With] great performances, and includes some of the most vividly sketched screen characters of the 1970s.
Sight and Sound
Louis Malle's most powerful movie tackles discomforting French history with dead-on objectivity, which only intensifies its punch...
USA Today
Objectivity is achieved while forcing a reassessment of our own perceptions. It is a truly remarkable film.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Description by OLDIES.com:
One of the first French films to address the issue of collaboration during the German occupation. Louis Malle's brave and controversial Lacombe, Lucien traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and of one troubled boy, the film is a disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.
Product Description:
This unflinching film by legendary director Louis Malle was one of the first of its time to openly discuss the troublesome issue of French collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. It follows an innocent young man (the very talented Pierre Blaise, who was killed in a car accident a year after the movie was made), who's looking for adventure and a sense of self-worth as he thinks about joining the French Resistance--but ends up as a member of the Gestapo instead. Quite controversial on its original release in 1974, the film uses its main character's journey as a prism for examining the moral ambiguity and guilt of France's war years.
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- Sales Rank: 49,494
- UPC: 037429212424
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