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The Return of Martin Guerre

Le retour de Martin Guerre

1982

Daniel Vigne

Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Roger Planchon, Maurice Barrier ...

6.8

636

Drama During the medieval times, Martin Guerre returns to his hometown in the middle of France, after being away in the war since he was a child. Nobody recognise him, and the people who knew him suspect he is not Martin, but he knows all about his family and friends, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[It] is social history of an unusually rich sort. It has a quality of immediacy (...) [Depardieu's] is a beautifully executed performance"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Convincing period drama with Depardieu doing his thing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Peachment Time Out	"The story strikes deep at a philosophic knot: what constitutes human identity, or soul? (...) Unfortunately the film lets the questions go hang, in favour of some admittedly successful courtroom drama"	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Involving and provocative (...) [It] is both a top-notch mystery story and a philosophical meditation on identity, personality and the very nature of reality."	POS

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