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A Self-Made Hero

Un héros très discret

1996

Jacques Audiard

Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg, Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel ...

6.5

505

Drama. Comedy 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. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It is not simply an attack on hypocrisy. In a larger sense, it's about our human weakness for inventing stories about ourselves, and telling them so often that we believe them (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Lisa Nesselson Variety	"This sure-footed, deeply ironic comedy about an impostor (...) is rock-solid entertainment with an appealing edge."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A delicious piece of work that succeeds in making the audience a willing accomplice in the deception (...) It is as precisely written as it is thought out, and beautifully acted in the bargain."	POS
United States	Russell Smith Austin Chronicle	"[Kassovitz] shows here an ability to convey subtler emotional states: vulnerability, regret, and a sorrowful sense of emptiness at his own core. These qualities are essential to the film's success (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"[Audiard] has constructed a film that works equally well on two levels: as an often hilarious -- if damning -- allegory (...) and as wonderfully suspenseful entertainment."	POS

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