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| Director: Francois Truffaut
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Andrea Ferreol, Paulette Dubost
Studio: Criterion Collection, The
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 36270
Format: Black & White, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: French (Original Language), German (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 131 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302919665
UPC: 037429057834
EAN: 9786302919660
ASIN: 6302919665
Theatrical Release Date: February 19, 1981
Release Date: September 3, 1996
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 Peerless Dramatic Performance April 19, 1999
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
During the nazi occupation of Paris, when missing the last metro meant a long and dangerous night on the streets, everyone must play a part. There are great sub-plots related to freedom and tyranny, but the star is Deneuve. This is her best role, and she has had many great ones. Here, she is an actress who cannot betray her love for the leading man, Depardieu, to her playwright husband in hiding who "directs" by what he hears. Great dramatic tension, great performances, and a great illustration (or a parable) of the realities that are created by drama. Maltin is obtuse when he says the movie, especially the finale, is pointless. The end is entirely fitting and pleasant, although startling. The war is won, the subterfuge can be abandoned, and the protagonists in the drama continue to create and order reality.
Truffault can be a lot of fun October 10, 2003
Adrienne Shirley (Hartsdale, NY)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Francois Truffault, who has always terrified me as a true "art" director, comes across in this film with warmth and humor; not only that, one get to learn a little about Paris under the Nazis and how people "coped." Catherine Deneuve, wife of the director and lead lady, is gorgeous as she balances the needs of her cranky Jewish husband in hiding (Heinz Bennent; he's continuing to direct by listening in to rehearsals through the pipes) and those of her handsome leading man (Gerard Depardieu), whose only way of coming on seems to be to grasp a pretty woman by the hand, gaze into it and murmur, "I seem to see two women here." For a movie about a sad and terrible time, there is a lot of strength, here, and I found Truffault, for some bizarre reason, easy to understand.
EXCELLENT March 17, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
TRUFFAUT, DENEUVE & DEPARDIEU AT THEIR BEST... BREATHTAKING STORY , PERFECT SET, PERFECT COSTUME, ONE OF THE BEST FRENCH MOVIE EVER...
Exquisite March 17, 1999
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is one of Truffaut's best films and I highly reccommend it
 Minor Truffaut, but quite enjoyable April 23, 2006
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Although Truffaut had another two films in him, in many ways The Last Metro looks as if it was planned as his last movie, even down to filming a deleted scene (included on the European DVDs but not this NTSC version) where a dying director tries to convince Catherine Deneuve's heroine to star in his last film. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean it sums up his life and work so much as it feels as if the somewhat half-hearted screenplay has been rushed into production without being entirely thought through. Not that its bad - indeed parts of it are quite enjoyable - more that it tends to drift by like exactly the kind of `well-made play' that he once attacked, with the romance barely developed and much of the interest coming from characters on the sidelines, such as Jean-Louis Richard's critic, collaborator and anti-Semitic propagandist. At it's best it comes over like a theatrical variation on Day For Night set against the German occupation (indeed, Richard was DFN's co-writer), without ever quite matching that film's emotional rollercoaster ride.
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