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Frankrijk
Drama
107 minuten

geregisseerd door Jacques Audiard
met Mathieu Kassovitz, Jean-Louis Trintignant en Sandrine Kiberlain

Aan het eind van de tweede wereldoorlog komt Albert erachter dat zijn vader geen oorlogsheld is en zijn moeder een collaborateur. Hij verlaat zijn vrouw en vertrekt naar Parijs om lid te worden van het verzet. Hij neemt de taak op zich om collaborateurs op te sporen.

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DVD Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment

DVD Release Date: February 12, 2007


Director: Jacques Audiard


Description
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"The best lives are invented ones. I forget who said that. Perhaps it was me?"

Thus claims Jean-Louis Trintignant in one of the brief modern-day "interviews" in Jacques Audiard"s wryly amusing and constantly engaging Un Heros Tres Discret/A Self-Made Hero. The main body of the film follows Matthieu Kassovitz"s Albert Dehousse, Trintignant"s younger self, an innocuous underachiever dreaming of heroic acts he never gets the chance to carry out who is devastated when he discovers his wife and new family have hidden their resistance work from him and denied him his chance to be a real hero. Betrayed, adrift and penniless in a newly-liberated Paris, he learns to take advantage of a moment in history when anything is suddenly possible and, thanks to fortuitous friendships with genuine hero Captain Dionnet (Albert Dupontel) and well-connected collaborator Monsieur Jo (Francois Berleand), reinvents himself as a self-effacing hero with just enough inside knowledge to get by.

He gets himself photographed in the crowd at war crimes trials, gradually inveigling his way into newsreels with real veterans and even makes capital out of the fact that many of his comrades have no idea who he is by amiably telling them they clearly don"t remember him and shouldn"t embarrass themselves by pretending, shaming them into "remembering" him and allowing him into their inner circle. An honest liar who knows how to listen and to sell the stories of others as his own, often to the very person he overheard it from, he rarely lies but rather omits, leaving his audience to fill in the gaps, just as he never asks for anything but simply takes what is offered because of who his audience has convinced themselves he is. .


Format: PAL

DVD Size: 4.32 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 101 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1

Sound (main feature): French DD5.1

Subtitles: optional English



DISC FEATURES:

# Interviews.
# Behind the scenes.
# Trailer.



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