La guerre à Paris (2002)

Director:

Yolande Zauberman

Writers:

Gérard Brach (writer)
Yolande Zauberman (writer)

Release Date:

22 May 2002 (France)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Place Name In Title

Cast

Élodie Bouchez	...	Ana Maria
Jérémie Renier	...	Jules
Grégoire Colin	...	Commissaire Romain
Julien Le Gallou	...	Thomas
Jean-Pierre Léaud	...	Haut Placé
Hélène Lapiower	...	La mère
Szymon Zaleski	...	Le père
Pascal Cervo	...	Inspecteur Combes
Ivan Franek	...	Léon
Olivier Perez	...	Leo Ostrowzki
Sebastien Fontaine	...	Un soldat allemand
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Alexandre
Tonio Arango
Pascal Bongard
François Decodts
Jérôme Etchevery
Sara Forestier
Louis Garrel
Thomas Gizolme
Youenn Jacquin
Geno Lechner
François Levantal
Hector Martin Minano
Maya Ng Chin Yue
Stéphane Petit
Joana Preiss
Sarah Stern
Olivier Torres
Cyril Troley
Max Tzwangue
Aleksandr Yakovlev		(as Sacha Iakovlev)
Alex Ziani

Also Known As:

The War in Paris (International: English title)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

France:U

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Hachette Première

Interesting but not great

There are basically two types of war-movies: one taking place in the battle-field and the other showing what happens to civilians in war time; this being of the latter kind. But it has been done better in the past. Much better...

Of course it's not all bad, there are some incredible actors like Grégoire Colin, Jérémie Rénier and Julien Le Gallou; and some memorable lines as well. I don't care very much for Élodie Bouchez, though, she's over-acting throughout the movie, especially towards the end of it. And I think the script could have been better, the actors generally have too many lines and at the end of it I found myself not really caring about what would happen to these people -which is a shame because that's what it's all about.

I give it 3/10, no more, no less