The Last Metro (1980, PG)

(Le dernier metro) Dir: François Truffaut, France, 131mins, 35mm

What a great way to end the AFFFF for 2012. A new print of a French cinema classic. A late masterpiece by one of French cinema’s great filmmakers. An early teaming of iconic French stars Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu, set in Paris, 1942. Deneuve plays Marion Steiner, left to manage a small theatre company, the Montmartre, when her Jewish husband Lucas is forced into exile under the German occupation of Paris. Marion stars in the company’s new play, alongside Bernard Granger (Gérard Depardieu), a womanising but talented actor who is also a member of the Resistance. As Bernard’s passion for Marion grows, emotional complications arise and loyalties are compromised. One of François Truffaut’s final films was inspired by a play by another great French filmmaker, Jean Renoir. Special ticket prices apply to all AFFFF screenings.

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