This attempt at an old-fashioned WWII romantic spy yarn goes painfully wrong. Gillian Armstrong tracks and pans like crazy but can’t hide the decidedly non-Gallic presence of fawn-like Billy Crudup as a French resistance lefty and his bearish non-approving papa (Michael Gambon). Cate Blanchett shows off her photogenic facial planes but is (unintendedly?) unsympathetic as the Brit agent who screws up her main (undefined) mission while secretly hunting for her downed flyboy/lover. This sort of claptrap might have been written for Norma Shearer & Robert Taylor (it was, see ESCAPE), but sixty years on, the heart-in-your-throat dramatic tropes as the Nazis collect cute Jewish waifs feels borderline reprehensible.
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