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The Last Metro

Le dernier métro (The Last Metro)

1980

François Truffaut

Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Jean Poiret, Andrea Ferréol ...

7.1

3,241

Drama Paris, 1942. Lucas Steiner is a Jew and was compelled to leave the country. His wife Marion, an actress, directs the theater for him. She tries to keep the theater alive with a new play, and hires Bernard Granger for the leading role. But Lucas is actually hiding in the basement... A film about art and life.

	Author	Review
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"You find yourself wondering what it was in Truffaut that ever appealed to you."	NEG
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"A dazzlingly subversive work."	POS
United Kingdom	Jason Korsner BBC	"With few of the director's idiosyncrasies, this is not one of Truffaut's more groundbreaking films."	NEU

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