Tonight on Netflix: 54 years later, this moving film still ranks as the great French filmmaker’s best

In March 1944, during the German occupation, in a small French village in the Isère, there lived a retired couple who thought every day about the propaganda that permeated the country without making sense of it without questioning it and asking questions in general.

When one day, their daughter asks them to take a little Parisian boy, the old man quickly befriends the latter, not knowing that he is Jewish and that his parents have sent him to the village to fight the Nazis.

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Claude Berry’s best film

Throughout his rich career, Claude Berry left his mark on the minds of the French public more than once. Koluch was offered one of the most beautiful roles in his filmography in the tragic Chao Pantin and a fairy-tale diptych adapted from Jean de Floret and Manon de Source for lovers of Marcel Pagnol, Berry was also interested in the liberation of Uranus and the struggle of workers. Germinal.

But it was his first full-length film, made in 1967 and sometimes little known to the general public, that AlloCiné viewers rated the highest in his filmography. With an average of 4088 stars out of 5, The Old Man and the Child is a very special film in Claude Berry’s career, simply because it almost tells its own story (the little boy is named Claude Langmann, which is the director’s birth name).

“A true story seen through a child’s imagination.”

described as semi-autobiographical and more accurately as “A true story seen through a child’s imagination”This moving and moving feature film fundamentally refuses to ignore the grim reality of war, but chooses to take some distance by taking the audience away from the fighting to better speak to them about another aspect of human nature.

Served by the excellent talents of its two main actors (the small impressive Allen Cohen, but also the incredible Michelle Simon), it seems that the old man and the child want to avoid the horrors and confront it with the tenderness of true friendship. Created funny, sad and beautiful moments at the same time, he says “Something Serious”As Francois Truffaut said In his time criticism.

So if you’ve never seen this brilliant work by Claude Berry, wait no more.

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