Synopsis
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
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Cast
- Mathieu KassovitzAlbert Dehousse
- Anouk GrinbergServane
- Sandrine KiberlainYvette
- Albert DupontelDionnet
- Jean-Louis TrintignantAlbert Dehousse (old)
- Nadia BarentinMadame Louvier / Madame Revuz / The General's Wife
- Bernard BlochErnst
- François ChattotLouvier
- Philippe DuclosCaron
- Danièle LebrunMadame Dehousse
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Examiner
This movie is a pleasure, an entertainment and an admirable artistic achievement. - 90
Variety
This sure-footed, deeply ironic comedy about an impostor who rises through the ranks is rock-solid entertainment with an appealing edge. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Smart and provocative. - 88
The Seattle Times
This is a confident, playful film that skewers both the amorality of the central character and, less comfortably, the gullibility of the people he so easily dupes. [5 Dec 1997, p.G5] - 78
Austin Chronicle
[A] distinctive, thought-provoking film. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
His film is more subtle and wide-reaching, the story of a man for whom everything is equally unreal, who distrusts his own substance so deeply that he must be somebody else to be anybody at all. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Director Jacques Audiard beautifully lays out the story of a charming nobody named Albert who becomes a master of the half- smile and nonchalant gestures of deceit. But the story is also a cogent metaphor for French collaboration with the Nazis. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Audriad's film articulates an uncomfortably familiar vision of a nation desperate enough to believe its own lies, where the copy is inevitably much better than the real thing and heroes are only as genuine as one needs them to be.
