Les Femmes De L'Ombre review
Jun. 29th, 2008 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI refuse to use what Empire describes as a "rubbish translation" and "awful title", so will revert to the original French to discuss Les Femmes De L'Ombre.
It was very well done, but pretty grim - I mean , I wasn't expecting them all to survive by any means, but the various demises of the main characters are generally quite distressing (well, dur, it's a war film, innit?). For some reason, Sophie Marceau kept reminding me of Cate Blanchett, which was a little odd, and I actually found the SS officer bad guy more compelling than any of the heroes, which just goes to show that he was allowed as much if not more depth of character than the rest. The other thing about the film that struck me was that it felt very old-fashioned. I know it was a period drama, so you'd hope that would be the case, but I mean in the style of it and the way it was shot. It felt like watching a film made several decades ago somehow, and was all the more effective for it.
Good stuff, but not exactly jolly.
It was very well done, but pretty grim - I mean , I wasn't expecting them all to survive by any means, but the various demises of the main characters are generally quite distressing (well, dur, it's a war film, innit?). For some reason, Sophie Marceau kept reminding me of Cate Blanchett, which was a little odd, and I actually found the SS officer bad guy more compelling than any of the heroes, which just goes to show that he was allowed as much if not more depth of character than the rest. The other thing about the film that struck me was that it felt very old-fashioned. I know it was a period drama, so you'd hope that would be the case, but I mean in the style of it and the way it was shot. It felt like watching a film made several decades ago somehow, and was all the more effective for it.
Good stuff, but not exactly jolly.
