La prima guerra mondiale è terminata e in Francia si identificano i corpi dei caduti. Il capitano Dellaplane incontra un donna che cerca il corpo del marito. I due si innamorano, ma lui si r... Leggi tuttoLa prima guerra mondiale è terminata e in Francia si identificano i corpi dei caduti. Il capitano Dellaplane incontra un donna che cerca il corpo del marito. I due si innamorano, ma lui si ritrae dinnanzi alla dichiarazione di lei.La prima guerra mondiale è terminata e in Francia si identificano i corpi dei caduti. Il capitano Dellaplane incontra un donna che cerca il corpo del marito. I due si innamorano, ma lui si ritrae dinnanzi alla dichiarazione di lei.
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Alice: Will you go to Mass?
Irène de Courtil: Why?
Alice: Just because.
Irène de Courtil: I don't think so, no.
Alice: You're against it? You're against God?
Irène de Courtil: I should be. All humans should be.
Alice: You're right. Especially women. Only we don't dare.
- ConnessioniReferenced in Voyage à travers le cinéma français (2016)
There are disquieting indications.that the business of cleaning up after the war is beginning to be mixed with selling the next one. Andre Maginot is involved in the search for the unknown corpse (Maginot will be the designer of the famed Maginot Line, that was to make the French-German boundary impregnable but didn't). Marshals and generals bask in glory; one of them, General Cherfils solemnly states "War's devastating allure only appears to be destructive," There are touches of black humor all over; one is about a town that (as all towns) sent soldiers to the front. None were killed, thus there is no pretext for building a memorial and the town fears being accused of collective cowardice and/or lack of patriotism for lack of corpses.
Beside Delaplane. the main characters are two women looking for their missing (and presumed dead) mates. One is the entitled, wealthy Parisian Irene (Sabine Azéma) the other the provincial school teacher Alice (Pascale Vignal). Reluctantly and uneasily the major and Irene build an uneasy relationship that evolves into something like love, although Delaplane seems at the end of his tether and unable to open up.
I saw this movie shortly after its release and recently, and I liked it then and now. It does many things well. The script, by director Bertrand Tavernier and Jean Cosmos is clear, direct and to the point, and in spite of its length no part is superfluous. Direction is fluid and acting first rate. The film carries a special meaning in these times where think tanks and the Pentagon cooly plan for the unthinkable and Hollywood movies glorify war. It delivers an antiwar message as powerful as "All Quiet in the Western Front" or the poetry of Wilfred Owen.
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- Citadelle souterraine de Verdun, Avenue du Soldat Inconnu, Verdun, Meuse, Francia(the coffin of the unknown soldier leaves the Citadelle of Verdun)
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