The Last Metro

Original title: Le dernier métro

1980
PG
2h 12m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

16K

YOUR RATING

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

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In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

16K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 13 wins & 7 nominations total

Trivia
In his Chicago Sun-Times review, Roger Ebert wrote that the character of Daxiat, the collaborationist critic, "is such an evil monster that he must surely be inspired by someone Truffaut knows." Michel Daxiat was the pseudonym of the critic Alain Laubreaux (1899-1968), who wrote for the anti-Semitic journal "Je suis partout." The scene where Bernard gives him a beating is inspired by an incident when Jean Marais punched Laubreaux; after Liberation, Laubreaux shared the fate Daxiat suffers at the film's end.

Goofs
In one scene in the cellar, during a conversation between Marion and Lucas, we can see the sound recordist hiding himself in a corner of the cellar.

Quotes
Marion Steiner: It takes two to love, as it takes two to hate. And I will keep loving you, in spite of yourself. My heart beats faster when I think of you. Nothing else matters.

Connections
Featured in Sneak Previews: Sunday Lovers/Falling In Love Again/My Bloody Valentine/The Last Metro (1981)

Soundtracks
Bei mir Bist du Schön
(Vous êtes plus Belle que le Jour)
Music by Sholom Secunda
Lyrics by Jacob Jacobs
English lyrics by Cahn-Chaplin
French lyrics by Jacques Larue

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Featured review

7/10

A human movie

An almost banal story about normal people which by its naturalness attains a truly remarkable human greatness. Against the background of nazi occupation of Paris with its whole train of treasons, pusillanimities, courage, resistance, collusions and collaboration with the enemy, indignities and oppression, a theatrical company staged underground by its director who is secretly hidden because he's Jewish, puts on the stage a play about love also repressed, a play however which resounds as a freedom although smothered shout in the darkness enveloping France and Europe by then. The acting performance of Depardieu and Deneuve is brilliant as usual although very simple and natural. Besides that, Deneuve is indeed one of the most beautiful movie stars we have ever seen. This movie is also a hymn to the theatre as free expression since ancient Greece, living through the love of those who devote themselves to it, very often with abnegation and in adverse conditions. It must by all means be seen because, in spite of all, it makes us believe in human virtues which keep pace here with the theatrical actors' talent.