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War film logic dictates that both Americans, Germans and the occupied French will all understand each other while speaking fluent Americanese.
"Lucie Aubrac" tells a slightly tweaked version of the true story of one woman's heroic struggle as a member of the underground Resistance in WWII occupied France.
The downtime, and there is plenty, is occupied with washed up actors and soon to be washed up actors who deliver their lines based on dubious scientific precepts badly.
The setting is an Antarctic research station staffed by 2 lone scientists throughout the winter, and otherwise occupied only by a collection of cute experimental chimpanzees.
The director/co-writer, Jacques Audiard, has taken a film previously made by James Toback called Fingers, starring Harvey Keitel in the role now occupied by Romain Duris, and made it his own.
In this film, Robin Williams plays a serious role as Jakob, a jewish resident in a war camp in nazi occupied Poland.
Its exploration of the almost entirely different worlds occupied by those fighting a war and those watching from a distance grabbed me from the first moment and kept me totally absorbed until the end of the final credits.
From cold bitter merciless concrentation camps to wartime America , from occupied France to Germany to naval battles at sea everything has an authentic look of 1940'es.
Another third of the movie is occupied by long pauses voiced-over with "poetic" inner monologue which sounds like it was written by an over-ambitous (and overly confident) college film major.
I don't think it occupied his thoughts as much as they make out - he is even totally preoccupied with the Celts before the rebellion!
This is writer-director Louis Malle's clever way of laughing at the viewer, saying "You have the dirty mind, not I." It's a very smart way to begin to the picture, but little else occupied my mind after it got going.
In this tiny town -- and really that's being charitable; hamlet is more appropriate -- there are but a handful of inhabitants and only three apparent businesses (saloon, store, and undertaker), no court or jail, no regular transportation services, no communications, no government offices of any kind, no mayor, and no law enforcement, yet a busily occupied lawyer?
the concept of the surfing shack was something not present on east coast beaches, and one wonders if the the local beach patrol would have allowed such a building to be built and occupied on a public beach.
Two Americans do unbelievable heroics just as France is being occupied by the Germans in the Second World War - and before the United States had entered the conflict.
Stephania chooses for helping the Jews Alek and Fryda in an occupied Poland.
She enters the castle in search of her father, to discover it is occupied by a beast.
(Some Spoilers) When a Polish prostitute is found brutally murdered in German occupied Warsaw German intelligence officer Major Grau, Omar Sharif,becomes obsessed in solving her murder.
David Bradley slides into the role once occupied by Dudikoff as Sean who, as a boy, saw his father shot by The Cobra's(Marjoe Gortner)henchman Andreas(Yehuda Efroni).
well...that was an afternoon of my life that could have been much better occupied by almost anything.
In the story, the small village of Bramley End is occupied by German paratroopers, who infiltrate the village disguised as English troops, along with the help of a local "Quisling" named Oliver Wilsford, played by Mervyn Johns.
On one side the historically accurate intent leaded by Col. Von Sauffenberg to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944, and on the other the murders of prostitutes by an unrevealed German general in Warsaw and occupied Paris that are investigated by a German officer who believes that "any time is good to catch a murderer" (even war time).
In fact, this movie goes beyond mere badness and earns itself a spot in the list of all-time clunkers occupied by other such embarrassments as Tarzan the Ape Man (1981), Inchon and Myra Breckenridge.
Orton's protagonist disrupted a home occupied by a brother and sister both childless whilst Fontaine's shares a home with a married couple who have a child.
I was anticipating a tale of romance and seduction between an older man and his mistress within Japanese occupied China.
I mean, a mansion occupied by the likes of Karloff, a strongman, a creepy butler, and an Eastern European maid, should at least get an atmosphere of death, if not an atmosphere of total evil and perversity.
The story begins in Shanghai as it is being seized and occupied by Japan in 1940.
Greek pledges find themselves in an abandoned mansion that is rumored to still be occupied by the deformed offspring of the owner.
This is a film occupied with moments.
Film set in both 1942 occupied Poland, and 1944 occupied Paris.
They just barge into an obviously occupied home on an island to ask for help but when they see no ones home they play a record and start dancing around like losers.
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