Just watched this, Bertrand Tavernier's great big (I didn't realize when starting it that it'd clock over two-and-a-half-hours, but by the time I croseed the two hour mark I didn't care) film about the French movie industry under the occupation. Based on the recollections of director Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche, who are the two central characters, the movie traces their morally questionable choice to work for Continental, a German studio.
It's a chaotic movie, in a way I really loved. The frame is almost always full, the camera just keeping up with the actors (there's tons of real-life characters--Tourneur, Clouzot etc). I didn't find it particularly hard to follow, though.
― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 8 August 2003 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)