Melodie, a friend who does two of my history modules, suggested catching the 1980 French film 'The Last Metro' directed by Francis Truffaunt at the Southbank BFI Cinema tonight so Jean and I decided to end off our week with a nice movie outing with her (the week's really been hectic and school-work filled). It starred Catherine Deneuve who looked so so beautiful twenty-one years ago (she reminds me of another French beauty Melanie Laurent).
The cast was quite eclectic and the story-line, for the most part, was quite realistic but bizarre towards the end. It's basically a story about a lady (played by Deneuve) trying to save a theatre during Nazi-occupied times, by staging a performance called 'Disappearance' (the whole play reminded me of Henrik Ibsen) and she's also hiding her famous Jewish husband director in the cellar of the theatre.
The movie could have gone in lots of directions (will the husband get discovered by the Gestapo? Would the play be a flop? Will the pro-German theatre critics close down her theatre?) and the ending took Melodie, Jean and I by surprise. There were also lots of revelations that we did not see coming (some were really random) but some of the lines that were uttered throughout the movie were really classic French humour and really funny (like one line that the lead actor says: "Have you created my second costume? It says in the script that I'm supposed to be wearing a frown." That is quite lame but funny you have to admit).
And the amazing thing is back in 1981, this film won ten Cesar awards and it got nominated for Best Foreign Film awards at both the Oscars and the Golden Globes. As surprised as I was by the film and its (random and somewhat unnecessary) twists and turns, I quite liked it once the credits started rolling.
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