The Last Metro (Le dernier metro)

Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve star as members of a French theater company living under the German occupation during World War II. Against all odds – a Jewish theater manager in hiding; a leading man who’s in the Resistance; increasingly restrictive Nazi oversight – the troupe believes the show must go on. Equal parts romance, historical tragedy, and comedy, “The Last Metro” is Truffaut’s ultimate tribute to art overcoming adversity.

The New Yorker’s Richard Brody writes: “The film is, above all, a memory piece. Truffaut, a boy who ran free in the city during the war, evokes a pent-up hoard of first-hand experiences…. Truffaut balances his hopeful plot on a tightrope of coincidences and narrow escapes that horrifically suggest the abyss that engulfed so many men and women of the artistic and political underground.”