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Francois Truffaut, whose DAY FOR NIGHT explored the world of filmmaking, now turns to the stage in this story of a small theatre company during the German occupation of France. Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve), the theatre's owner, is desperately trying to keep both the troupe and Lucas (Heinz Bennet), her Jewish husband, .. Read more

Starring	Gerard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Stephane Audran, Stephane Audran
Director	Francois Truffaut
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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- Tightly enclosed symbolic melodrama of oppression and release that concentrates on individual lives caught up in a moment of mass madness and seeking refuge in their dedication to their art.
- 31831
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  Truffaut's best??
  
  The title derives from the curfew in German occupied Paris when all the inhabitants had to scurry to catch the last metro to get home at 11-0-clock to avoid ... read more »
  
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  - Bill Johnson
  - Leamington Spa
  - 02 May 2004 at 08:39
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  A mysterious title though
  
  A great film. Depardieu and Deneuve are a match made in film heaven. Very entertaining with a lovely amount of self reference, suspense and gentle humour. ... read more »
  
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- - Madametruffaut
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  - 03 May 2012 at 23:55
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  Self-indulgence in the world of DSK
  
  Wooden performances, amateurish and camp in some cases, unbelievable and unplotted passion between Deneuve and Depardieu, creaky studio-bound filming. Or is it ... read more »
  
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  - 02 Aug 2011 at 14:11
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  Excellent film
  
  Loved the film - fantastic performances by all concerned, esp. Catherine Deneuve. Just one technical moan, however. At the end, the theatre director appears to ... read more »
  
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- - beallenuk
  - 3 reviews
  - London
  - 14 Nov 2010 at 16:53
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  I don't get it
  
  Here's a film the highbrow critics love but I don't get it. I found it muted and bland, lacking any edge in filming style or performances. If it hadn&#... read more »
  
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  - driveindavy
  - 66 reviews
  - scotland
  - 22 Sep 2010 at 12:34
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  Amusing but thin
  
  I found the lack of a sense of history to be a problem in engaging with this film. There was the Jewish theatre manager amusingly hidden away in the basement ... read more »
  
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- - Leni
  - 179 reviews
  - London
  - 19 Apr 2010 at 12:38
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  The Lst Metro
  
  Interesting, but not exceptional film about occupation of France.
  
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- - Ave
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  - Rickmansworth
  - 24 Jan 2010 at 20:53
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  Strangely subdued
  
  Quality stuff, but this tale of theatre folk during the occupation of Paris is ultimately disappointing. There is little evidence of hardship, hunger or danger ... read more »
  
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- - Oldbloke
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  - Sidmouth
  - 27 Jul 2009 at 13:35
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  The Last Metro
  
  This was a characteristically slow-paced drama from Truffaut which makes oblique references to the era of Nazi occupation in 1940s France, via the performers ... read more »
  
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- - michaelto
  - 6 reviews
  - GLASGOW
  - 01 Mar 2009 at 22:36
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  THE LAST METRO
  
  Interesting and enjoyable French film from 1980 about a (jewish) theatre in Paris surviving the occupation ( in the 1940s).
  
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- - newsnight
  - 16 reviews
  - Blairgowrie
  - 12 Feb 2009 at 23:15
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  Monotonous!!
  
  I was really looking forward to watching this film as I had read some of the reviews but the truth was it was total rubbish....Very boring with no real story.. ... read more »
  
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  - Bonny Scotland
  - 01 Jul 2008 at 10:39
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- - 13
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  Truffaut's best??
  
  The title derives from the curfew in German occupied Paris when all the inhabitants had to scurry to catch the last metro to get home at 11-0-clock to avoid ... read more »
  
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  - Bill Johnson
  - Leamington Spa
  - 02 May 2004 at 08:39
- - 6
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  Something for a rainy night
  
  What a wonderful, heartwarming film, that reminds us why we fell in love with Gerard Depardieu in the first place.
  
  By turns funny, poignant and yes, ... read more »
  
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- - mishi
  - Salisbury
  - 07 Nov 2004 at 10:15
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  sweepingly beautiful and romantic
  
  Once you accept the conventions of Truffaut’s visual style – deliberately artificial and theatrical – the charming story unfolds. What is most ... read more »
  
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- - Felicity
  - Scotland
  - 04 Jan 2007 at 12:55
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  A Class Act
  
  It is overlong, it is a little too aware of its own seriousness and it does have a monumental feel to it at times but I loved it. One of the first cinematic ... read more »
  
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  - Leyland
  - 13 Dec 2005 at 09:32
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  Excellent film
  
  Loved the film - fantastic performances by all concerned, esp. Catherine Deneuve. Just one technical moan, however. At the end, the theatre director appears to ... read more »
  
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- - beallenuk
  - 3 reviews
  - London
  - 14 Nov 2010 at 16:53
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  Catching the Last Metro...
  
  ....if only Depardieu had then we wouldn't have had this overlong play put forward as a movie. The film dates as it sets a polemic about the treatment of ... read more »
  
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- - Ed Funnell
  - Bromley, Kent
  - 22 Nov 2005 at 16:44
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  Engrossing
  
  I was hooked from the start.Deneuve is so beautiful and Depardieu a wonderful actor,too.An atmosphere of tension and menace both within the theatre and in the ... read more »
  
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  - WsMare
  - 15 Feb 2008 at 19:44
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  Customer Review
  
  "The Last Metro" is merely a moderately watchable film about life in a small Montmartre theatre during the Nazi Occupation. Catherine Deneuve plays ... read more »
  
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  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
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  Monotonous!!
  
  I was really looking forward to watching this film as I had read some of the reviews but the truth was it was total rubbish....Very boring with no real story.. ... read more »
  
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  - Bonny Scotland
  - 01 Jul 2008 at 10:39
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  THE LAST METRO
  
  Interesting and enjoyable French film from 1980 about a (jewish) theatre in Paris surviving the occupation ( in the 1940s).
  
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- 707853
- - newsnight
  - 16 reviews
  - Blairgowrie
  - 12 Feb 2009 at 23:15

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Critics' reviews
- Tightly enclosed symbolic melodrama of oppression and release that concentrates on individual lives caught up in a moment of mass madness and seeking refuge in their dedication to their art.
- 31831
- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
- Once the Prince Charming of the French cinema, Truffaut latterly carried his talent for crowd-pleasing to the brink... read more on Time Out
- 45099
- - Time Out
  - 04 Nov 2008 at 00:15
- "...Deneuve has always been at her best directed by Truffaut. In THE LAST METRO she has never been more glamorous..."
- 10563
- - Sight and Sound
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...A dazzlingly subversive work....The entire cast is splendid..."
- 10562
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59

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- The Last Metro
  
  Francois Truffaut, whose DAY FOR NIGHT explored the world of filmmaking, now turns to the stage in this story of a small theatre company during the German occupation of France. Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve), the theatre's owner, is desperately trying to keep both the troupe and Lucas (Heinz ...