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Viimeinen metro

Original title: Le dernier métro
  • 19801980
  • K-12K-12
  • 2h 11m
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Viimeinen metro (1980)
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 Nazis while doing both of their jobs.In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

IMDb RATING
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14,394
2,327
  • Director
    • François Truffaut
  • Writers
    • François Truffaut(scenario)
    • Suzanne Schiffman(scenario)
    • Jean-Claude Grumberg(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Catherine Deneuve
    • Gérard Depardieu
    • Jean Poiret
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  • Director
    • François Truffaut
  • Writers
    • François Truffaut(scenario)
    • Suzanne Schiffman(scenario)
    • Jean-Claude Grumberg(dialogue)
  • Stars
    • Catherine Deneuve
    • Gérard Depardieu
    • Jean Poiret
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    • 50User reviews
    • 53Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 13 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Catherine Deneuve and Heinz Bennent in Viimeinen metro (1980)
    Catherine Deneuve and Heinz Bennent in Viimeinen metro (1980)
    Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu in Viimeinen metro (1980)
    Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu in Viimeinen metro (1980)
    Catherine Deneuve and Heinz Bennent in Viimeinen metro (1980)
    Catherine Deneuve in Viimeinen metro (1980)
    Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu in Viimeinen metro (1980)
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    Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve
    • Marion Steiner
    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    • Bernard Granger
    Jean Poiret
    Jean Poiret
    • Jean-Loup Cottins
    Andréa Ferréol
    Andréa Ferréol
    • Arlette Guillaume
    Paulette Dubost
    Paulette Dubost
    • Germaine Fabre
    Jean-Louis Richard
    Jean-Louis Richard
    • Daxiat
    Sabine Haudepin
    Sabine Haudepin
    • Nadine Marsac
    Maurice Risch
    Maurice Risch
    • Raymond Boursier
    Heinz Bennent
    Heinz Bennent
    • Lucas Steiner
    Christian Baltauss
    • Lucien Ballard - Bernard's Replacement
    Pierre Belot
    • Desk Clerk
    René Dupré
    • Valentin - Writer in Hotel Lobby
    • (as Rene Dupre)
    Aude Loring
    • Frau Wiedekind
    Alain Tasma
    • Marc - Jean-Loup's Assistant
    Rose Thiéry
    • Mme. Thierry - Jacquôt's Mother
    • (as Rose Thierry)
    Jacob Weizbluth
    • Rosen - Rejected Actor
    Jean-Pierre Klein
    Jean-Pierre Klein
    • Christian Leglise
    Rénata
    Rénata
    • Greta Borg - Nightclub Singer
    • (as Rénata)
    • Director
      • François Truffaut
    • Writers
      • François Truffaut(scenario) (dialogue)
      • Suzanne Schiffman(scenario) (dialogue)
      • Jean-Claude Grumberg(dialogue)
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    • 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
      Music by Sholom Secunda

      Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Jacob Jacobs and Jacques Larue

      (Editions Chappell)

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    9/10
    One from Les Films du Carrosse
    One often sees the criticism of Francois Truffaut"s "Le Dernier Metro" ( "The Last Metro") that he had turned to making films in the tradition of the films that he had scorned as a young critic in the 1950s. Of course, most of these writers are not familiar with the films that he had scorned. I would say "yes" he was working in a tradition. He could almosthave titles the film "Si Paris occupeé nous était conté". Sacha Guitrywas one of his heroes. But he did call the film "Le Dernier Metro" and that title points to the tradition of the film and explains its style.It is true that the early scene where Bernard tries to pick up Arlette bears some resemblance to the scene at the beginning of "Les Enfants des Paradis" in which Frederick attempts to pick up Garance. It must be remembered though that the young critics of the 50s had no ax to grind with the Prevert-Carne films of the late 30s and the first half of the 40s. Anyone who watches the clip of Godard from 1963 on the "Bande a Part" will hear him praise the Carne of "Quai des Brumes" before deprecating the Carne of "Les Tricheurs". Even their criticism of Carne that merely photograph his screenwriters scenario, that he was more a "metteur en image" than a "metteur en scene", had started in the mid-40s by Henri Jeanson, Carne's one-time collaborator. But getting back to my point that scene occurring in the midst of the crowd on the Boulevard des Crime in the Carne film explains its title and theme.Carne's film is about theater-goers, even his four theatricalprotagonists all attend plays. Truffaut's film though is not so muchabout the audience as it is about the theater world and hence its title" Le Dernier Metro". Before I get back to my point I believe I should note here that "Le Dernier Metro" was meant to be one panel in a trilogy on the entertainment world. "La Nuit Americaine" ("Day for Night") was of course the film panel. And "L'Agence Magique" a film about Music Hall was never made. In the late 70s Truffaut had a screenplay for this film ready to shoot and had begun pre-production but the failure of "The Green Room" caused him to alter his plans and to film "L'Amour en Fuite".

    The voice-over prologue describes an occupied Paris where night workers have to scurry to make the last metro in order to beat the curfew. What is left to our imaginations is to realize that many of these workers are theater people. Jean Marais whose real-life thrashing of the Je Suis Partout drama critic Alain Laubreaux provided the inspiration for one of the key scenes in the film described the last metro thusly in his autobiography "Histoires de ma Vie" (page 159)

    "The last metro was marvelous. As packed as the others. It carried all of the theater world of Paris. Everyone knew everyone else. We spoke of the latest concert, of the ballet, of the theater. Outside, it was the blackout, the militias, German patrols, hostages if one was out past curfew." NOTE: "Tout-Paris" usually means " Paris high society" but Marais in the book frequently uses in a narrower sense of "the theater world".

    In other words "Les Films de Carosse" had produced a film that represented "the last metro" as the golden coach of occupied Paris. Some quarter of a century earlier before Truffaut made "Le Dernier Metro" he with Jacques Rivette had interviewed Jean Renoir and Renoir told them that in order to do his film on the world of theater "The Golden Coach" he had found it necessary to subordinate his style to a theatrical style. Could it be that there is one explanation of the style of the film? So now Truffaut was returning to the style of "The Golden Coach".

    Some other ideas gleaned from Nestor Almendros' "A Man With A Camera". Remember the scene from the beginning of the film that I spoke about earlier, the one were Bernard accosts Arlette. I can still remember the feeling of claustrophobia that I felt the first time I saw "Le Dernier Metro". And of course I was going to soon discover that one of the main characters in the film was hiding in a small room in the basement of his theater. Almendros speaks of using the camera to create a feeling of claustrophobia in this film. He also reveals that it was normal for Truffaut to keep his windows open. But in this film because of its theme and its time period, windows remained shut. Also, he and Truffaut wanted the look of early Agfacolor of films like "Munchhaussen" and "Die Goldene Stadt". A look that was gentler and softer than the vivid Technicolor films of the same period. Thus the set designer were asked for ocher-colored sets and the props and costumes were chosen in subdued colors. Also they changed their film stock to Fuji because it was closer to this look they were cultivating. As long as we are discussing Almendros I think it might be appropriate to end with a quote from his chapter on the film "The Green Room".

    "As expected, "The Green Room" was not very well received. The theme of death rarely attracts crowds. This is almost an axiom in the cinema, and by producing so difficult and personal a work, risking almost certain economic failure, Truffaut showed once again that after sixteen films he was still the uncompromising artist he was as a young man." Nestor Almendros, "A Man With A Camera" page 220.
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    • Release date
      • September 24, 1982 (Finland)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Official site
      • MK2 Films (France)
    • Languages
      • French
      • German
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • The Last Metro
    • Filming locations
      • Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France
    • Production companies
      • Les Films du Carrosse
      • Sédif Productions
      • TF1 Films Production
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $3,007,945
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $11,206
      • Apr 25, 1999
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,007,945
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 11 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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