A Mild Diversion
Charlotte Gray review
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Routemaster from Cambridge
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8th May 2010
When you have nothing better to do and the box is running it's repeats of Come Dine with me or X Factor then put this DVD on.
The film was slow, glossing over how Charlotte was recruited into the resistance and within minutes seemed to pack her off to France via parachute.
Cate Blanchett (Charlotte) and Billy Crudup (Julien - her resistance contact) were both watchable in this movie but could do nothing I fear to save the film adaptation of the book plot. The film looked more at Charlotte's romances - at first the pilot she meets (Rupert Penry-Jones) and then with Julien; instead of the situation she finds herself in during war torn France.
Various dangerous sabotage missions are undertaken but these seem secondary in the film and the participants seem to have come along for the ride rather than being active members of a serious situation.
Michael Gambon gives a credible performance as Julien's father.
Overall - OK
