Female Agents details
| Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Deborah Francois, Moritz Bleibtreu, Maya Sansa, Julien Boisselier, Volker Bruch, Robin Renucci, Xavier Beauvois, Colin David Reese |
| Director: | Jean-Paul Salome |
| Genres: | Drama - Historical, War, World Cinema - French |
| Studio: | REVOLVER ENTERTAINMENT |
| Original title | Les Femmes de l'ombre |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Female Agents |
15 Feature | |
Female Agents - Bonus Features |
15 Bonus |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 53 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 06 Oct 2008 |
| Main languages: | French |
| Subtitles: | English |
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The brave women of the Shadows
By a customer from England , 30 Jun 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
Thought this is generally a good all-round film with some tense, edge-of-seat action based on true events. Some decent acting depicting and honouring these extremely brave women - and men - who fought for the Allied cause in WW2.
Thought it sad, though, that the British advertising is marketing the film under the fairly bland title of 'Female Agents', and has not retained the more thrilling-sounding and intriguing French title of 'Femmes des Ombres', ('Women of the Shadows') - Nice attention to detail of 1944 dress. Recommended viewing for many reasons.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(91)Oh dear
By a customer , 24 Aug 2012I suppose there is a goodside to all the cutbacks across the world, and that is (hopefully) that films like wont have the little funding necessary to make them. Dirty Dozen with girls, entertaining if you play war film cliché Bingo with friends- Was this review helpful to you?
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Only loosely based on the true story
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absolutely brilliant !
By doughnutboy (8 reviews) from Blackpool , 22 Jan 2012I rented this film expecting an average WW2 movie with a few explosions , bad guys killed and the heroes winning at the end . I WAS WRONG !! This film was a brilliant thriller with a bad guy you love to hate , a good plot based on true events and good actors . As others have mentioned in their reviews , the title could have been better ( the translation of the french original title is 'Women from the shadows') .- Was this review helpful to you?
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History relived
By AndyRob (15 reviews) , 04 Dec 2011Another true story of some incredibly brave and determined people during WW11. Brilliantly produced and acted with a great deal of realism. The brutality of the Nazis never ceases to amaze me. Think they could have chosen a better title for this film, nevertheless recommended.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not for the squeamish
By RodgerTheDodger (31 reviews) , 15 Nov 2011This was for me very much a film of two halves. The first half had all the usual immaculate attention to detail with the props, the decoration of the rooms, the clothes, the cars, but as usual, no attempt by the cast to behave as people behaved in the 1940s. There is no excuse for this, there is lots of film, both cinematic and verite, from that time so we know know how people were, but we got the usual soap opera style from the cast, all very 'let's pretend'. In the second half the film moves to intensely personal issues of individual courage and self-discovery where the characters are confronted by what they will do in frankly appalling and brutal situations. No punches are pulled and it is very well done. This completely overwhelms the problems with the first 30 minutes and it ends up a good film. On the other hand it is sufficiently bloody that overall I think I would rather that I hadn't watched it. One small distraction is that the heroine is uncomfortably similar to the 'heroine of the Resistance' in 'Allo 'Allo.- Was this review helpful to you?
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