One of the greatest WW II epic masterpieces EVER!

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Robert Hossein

Nicole Garcia

Geraldine Chaplin

Claude Lelouch

The intertwined lives of three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s.

Les uns et les autres

A cathedral made of matchsticks

First thing to bear in mind is that like Hossein&apos;s &quot;les Miserables&quot; or Enrico&apos;s &quot;Au Nom de Tous les Miens&quot;,the movie which was theatrically released is a digest of a miniseries ,the running time of which exceeded six hours.In three hours,there are too many characters ,and Lelouch uses the same thespians to portray the parents and the children (Chaplin,Caan,Bouix...)which sometimes is a mess.But it&apos;s Hossein who gets the biscuit:even &quot;made look younger&quot; ,he was 54 at the time and it&apos;s impossible to believe he is a soldier coming back from the Algeria war.

It can be looked upon as a musical ,but the only musical sequence which is really awesome is Ravel&apos;s bolero where the four (French,Russian,German and American) families prove us (as if we did not understand) that it&apos;s better making music than making war.Thank you and God bless you all.

That said ,there&apos;s that optimistic bourgeois side in Lelouch&apos;s movies;it&apos;s so glaring here that it becomes sometimes unbearable.With a few exceptions (Garcia&apos;s husband,the girl who used to play around with the Germans,victims of war),it&apos;s a success story.We deal with educated brilliant people whose career will take them to megastardom after the war.There&apos;s a French film made up of sketches called &quot;Retour à la vie&quot; which depicted the fates of four men and a woman after WW2.Their future was not so bright: the concentration camps ,it&apos;s not a thing you forget overnight.You are going to say,Nicole Garcia ends up in an insane asylum.Probably but long after the war.In &quot;Retour à la vie&quot; Aunt Anna was so weak and so traumatized she could not utter one word.

The cast is admittedly impressive.But if the leads were not played by celebrities such as James Caan,Geraldine Chaplin or Fanny Ardant,we would be lost in a terrible mess.Ansd sometimes I must confess I do not know if it&apos;s the father (mother) or the son (daughter).And Lelouch spared us the third generation (they are still brats).To think that the last part of &quot;Toute une Vie&quot; (1974) another extravaganza which spanned a century,the last part was pure sci-fi and took us down to the future world! Les uns will like.Les autres won&apos;t.

First thing to bear in mind is that like Hossein's "les Miserables" or Enrico's "Au Nom de Tous les Miens",the movie which was theatrically released is a digest of a miniseries ,the running time of which exceeded six hours.In three hours,there are too many characters ,and Lelouch uses the same thespians to portray the parents and the children (Chaplin,Caan,Bouix...)which sometimes is a mess.But it's Hossein who gets the biscuit:even "made look younger" ,he was 54 at the time and it's impossible to believe he is a soldier coming back from the Algeria war.

It can be looked upon as a musical ,but the only musical sequence which is really awesome is Ravel's bolero where the four (French,Russian,German and American) families prove us (as if we did not understand) that it's better making music than making war.Thank you and God bless you all.

That said ,there's that optimistic bourgeois side in Lelouch's movies;it's so glaring here that it becomes sometimes unbearable.With a few exceptions (Garcia's husband,the girl who used to play around with the Germans,victims of war),it's a success story.We deal with educated brilliant people whose career will take them to megastardom after the war.There's a French film made up of sketches called "Retour à la vie" which depicted the fates of four men and a woman after WW2.Their future was not so bright: the concentration camps ,it's not a thing you forget overnight.You are going to say,Nicole Garcia ends up in an insane asylum.Probably but long after the war.In "Retour à la vie" Aunt Anna was so weak and so traumatized she could not utter one word.

The cast is admittedly impressive.But if the leads were not played by celebrities such as James Caan,Geraldine Chaplin or Fanny Ardant,we would be lost in a terrible mess.Ansd sometimes I must confess I do not know if it's the father (mother) or the son (daughter).And Lelouch spared us the third generation (they are still brats).To think that the last part of "Toute une Vie" (1974) another extravaganza which spanned a century,the last part was pure sci-fi and took us down to the future world! Les uns will like.Les autres won't.

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