The Last Metro at BAM

François Truffaut's homage to Word War II-era France, The Last Metro, screened this weekend at BAM, part of its month-long celebration of the great Catherine Deneuve. Here she plays a stringent theater owner, even lovelier than when playing an uptight housewife with masochistic fantasies. The movie, alas, has aged less well, preferring nostalgia to realism, muted emotion to passion. But that icy beauty and haughty mien transport us just the same. 

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