Foreign France, subtitles
A painful and predicable story about the French Resistance to German occupation during WWII. If you knew nothing about French complicity and roundup of the Jews, and other atrocities performed by the Vichy French and the Gestapo, this movie may have been informative. However, in my opinion this this very weak drama could just have well been a documentary. If there was a human story, this film didn't provide it.
A bigger question that was not posed was: Was the gain from the Resistance worth the blood and pain. In Norway Resistance was stopped by the British because the loss of Norwegian citizens exceeded the gain of killing a couple of German soldiers.
This was another review:
World War II was certainly a bore if we’re to believe this dully competent look at the FTP-MOI, a Gallic resistance force led by French-Armenian poet Missak Manouchian . There’s nothing stirring or engaging about their exploits; the clock just dutifully ticks down the days and incidents until the revolutionaries are led off to SS slaughter. Each character feels interchangeable
Traditional suspense is bypassed in favor of staid observation. There’s no sense of the oppression France felt under Nazi rule. It’s all just play-acting in period-specific attire.
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