[REVIEW] Diplomatie - GREAT
This is a wonderful movie about the reddition of Mazi-occupied Paris to the Allied Army in August 1944. (It's a fictionalized account).
Mostly, it is a huis-clos (I couldn't find the English translation of this, which means more or less a small number of people in one delimited space. Arsenic and Old Lace probably counts as that, for instance): so for most of the movie, you have the Swedish ambassador and the German governor of Paris talking to each other in one room, with the former trying to convince the later not to blow up Paris at dawn. There are a few times when we get out of the room, but instead of breaking the mounting tension, it makes it worse. It's really masterful, and the two main actors are really great.
The fact that I knew how it ended, as will most people watching the movie doesn't lessen the tension, and it didn't make me less viscerally horrified to hear the Nazis' plan for destroying Paris.
It's also the movie adaptation of a play, and I don't know if it'll go beyond France in its distribution.
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Mostly, it is a huis-clos (I couldn't find the English translation of this, which means more or less a small number of people in one delimited space. Arsenic and Old Lace probably counts as that, for instance): so for most of the movie, you have the Swedish ambassador and the German governor of Paris talking to each other in one room, with the former trying to convince the later not to blow up Paris at dawn. There are a few times when we get out of the room, but instead of breaking the mounting tension, it makes it worse. It's really masterful, and the two main actors are really great.
The fact that I knew how it ended, as will most people watching the movie doesn't lessen the tension, and it didn't make me less viscerally horrified to hear the Nazis' plan for destroying Paris.
It's also the movie adaptation of a play, and I don't know if it'll go beyond France in its distribution.
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