Lucie Aubrac | 
 enlarge | Director: Claude Berri
Actors: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Patrice Chéreau, Jean-roger Milo, Eric Boucher
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $69.95
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 118550
Format: Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Running Time: 115
Discs: 1
EAN: 5060002832127
ASIN: B000260O8U
Theatrical Release Date: February 26, 1997
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Carole Bouquet stars as Lucie Aubrac, a heroine of the French resistance during World War II. Her husband Raymond (Daniel Auteuil) is a resistance fighter who helps sabotage Nazi trains. At a meeting, he and some compatriots are arrested, but believed to merely be black-marketeers. Lucie secures his release and enables them to fulfill their oath to spend every May 14 together, the anniversary of the first night they made love. The arrest of a resistance leader causes divisions; a meeting called to resolve them is raided, and Raymond is arrested again, along with an important resistance figure known as Max. Raymond endures brutal interrogations but is sentenced to death. With steely determination, Lucie plots to rescue him. Lucie Aubrac is part thriller and part romance, but both halves are handled with a subdued discretion that doesn't prevent the movie from being deeply engaging. Meticulous and skillful, director Claude Berri paces his story carefully, paying attention to the details of life in occupied France. The fully developed atmosphere, never overstated, gives just the right frame to Lucie and Raymond's passionate marriage. Auteuil is solid, but it's Bouquet's film; her performance is as low-key as the movie, yet completely compelling and deeply affecting. Based on a true story. --Bret Fetzer
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 Another epic episode in the middle of the War! September 29, 2007
Lucie Aubrac is a delirious, absorbing and engaging drama in the middle of the bloody WW2. this was a true story of Lucie and Raymond Aubrac, when at the outbreak of the War, this couple decides to join the French Resistance. Raymond is Jewish, and is captured by the nazis and condemned to death. But she will risk her life to make a smart plan to liberate him.
Carole Boucquet and Daniel Auteil make a solid and effective team in a tour de force and towering performance, that, supported by this driving force director- Claude Beeri (Germinal, Jean de Florette) make a worthy to collect movie.
good watch January 22, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I liked this movie. Beautifully done and a good peek into
the French resistance. Kept me interested and a moving 'true' story.
An Unusual Romance February 16, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When we think romance in film...we think of the classics (Greta Garbo, Vivian Leigh, etc). This story of passion between a man and a woman is entirely different. The female heroine simply won't accept the Nazi's execution order for her husband (who was captured in a sting against the French resistance). Therefore, she takes every step imaginable to free him...and succeeds. Now that's love!
 For a French film, this one disappoints May 17, 2005
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have an extremely high regard for French cinema in general, but "Lucie Aubrac" reminds me of formula War Weepies made in the U.S.; nothing special about it. Guess I've been spoiled by superb films like "Ridicule" or "Mr. Hire," but I expect far more from a French film than "Lucie Aubrac" delivers. I wish I didn't have to say so, but "Lucie Aubrac" almost looks "made for TV" and reminds me of yet another example of extraordinary actors trapped in an all-too-ordinary movie with an uninspired screenplay that tells the story in a workmanlike fashion. It's not a "bad" film. It's not a good one, either. Lucie Aubrac's story deserves better.
Sexy drama and empowering! May 20, 2004
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Daniel Auteuil has a hidden sexiness that bursts out in this film! This is based on a true story of a French women that helps her husband escape from a Nazi death sentence so that they can keep a promise they made to each other, to make love to each other every year on their anniverary.It is a powerful drama that not even Hollywood could make. The French are progressive filmmakers that far surpasses the formulaic fluff that is generated by the Hollywood studios. The Hollywood moguls think that American movie-goers cannot think for themselves in the theater. Great film that all should see. It should not be remade but seen in this version!!!!
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