Le Dernier métro
François Truffaut
Paris 1942. Marion Steiner is the wife of the former Jewish director of the Montmartre Theatre. Taking over the direction of the theatre after her husband goes into hiding, she decides to stage his play, Disappeared, following his written indications. The actor Bernard Granger, formerly at the Grand Guignol, and a great lover of women, becomes involved in the project. Right up to the dress rehearsal, Daxiat, the virulent theater critic of "I Am Everywhere" terrorizes the troupe.
With : Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret, Heinz Bennent, Andréa Ferréol, Paulette Dubost, Sabine Haudepin, Jean-Louis Richard, Maurice Risch
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Image : Nestor Almendros
Sound : Michel Laurent
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Martine Barraqué
Screenplay : François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Image : Nestor Almendros
Sound : Michel Laurent
Music : Georges Delerue
Editing : Martine Barraqué
Production : Les Films du Carrosse, SEDIF, TF1, SFP
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
The Last Metro, François Truffaut's biggest box-office success, associated two of his great ambitions: filming the occupation and the theatre world. "Writing the preface to a compilation, Cinema and the Occupation, of André Bazin's first articles must have stirred up my memory as a young movie-goer, and then all the recollections of what it was like during that period of time came flooding back. That's when I decided to bring to the screen my oldest dream." (F. Truffaut) "If he was thinking about To Be or Not to Be, he also had The Rules of the Game in mind: constructing a film with multiple characters, mixing onstage and backstage, celebrities and technicians in the shadows. (...) The screenplay for The Last Metro is a tightly woven multi-layered story – history, secrets, desire, rehearsals, theater life, the life of the company – as well as the many different genres that are intermingled." (Carole Le Berre)