Charlotte Gray | Ron Cook, Nicholas Farrell | A great Cate Blanchette film

Charlotte Gray | Ron Cook, Nicholas Farrell | I watch it all the time...

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Charlotte Gray

	Charlotte Gray Ron Cook, Nicholas Farrell Warner Home Video, 2002 average customer review:based on 48 reviews view larger image
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Charlotte Gray does little to tarnish Cate Blanchett's rising-star status but misfires badly as a moralistic World War II drama. The title character of the film, which is based on a popular novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks, is a young Scottish woman (Blanchett) who has come to London to help with the war effort. After quickly falling in love with a dashing pilot who is summarily shot down in southwest France, the intensely patriotic Charlotte joins a special operations outfit in order to find him. Competent melodrama to this point, the film goes astray from here. Since repeated references are made to Charlotte's fluent French, it is hard to maintain any suspension of disbelief when she parachutes into Lezignac and we discover that the French resistance fighters she works with speak English with alternately French or British accents (while the Nazis continue to speak German without subtitles). A similarly perfunctory schema of good versus evil among the citizenry is soon laid out as collaborators and patriots are painted with equally simplistic strokes. Blanchett, along with Billy Crudup and Michael Gambon, gives a lively performance despite a shoddy script, but director Gillian Armstrong's conceits to a mainstream audience seem jumbled and not a little condescending. --Fionn Meade

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A great Cate Blanchette film

I purchased this movie to see Rupert Penry-Jones who I really like as an actor. I thought he was very good but could understand why he has stated that he will no longer play the guy who doesn't get the girl.

Cate was great and it really is her film. Billy Crudit (misspelled I am sure) really did a great job as the hero. Michael Gambon is a great favorite of mine also. This movie is done in the same way that Gambon did the Magret series for the BBC and PBS.

Really recommend this film for all ages. My grandaughter and daughter enjoyed watching it as well as I did.

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I watch it all the time...

I guess I'm one of a few, but I love this movie. I watch it over and over. Cate Blanchett is one of my favorite actresses and to me, the story line is moving and very powerfully acted. I love Billy in this movie too...the first movie I have actually watched with him in it (that I know of) and I fell in love with him.

charlotte gray

very interesting ww2 story of the corrupt govt. ofwar time france as well as fine people doing what should be done .

French Occupation Drama

Cate Blanchett is terrific in this film about espionage in France during World War II. Story is well crafted and most of it is believable. One or two of the actors disappoint.
Subtle aspects of this film include betrayal by the French collaborators, and British fear of French resistance fighters with Communist leanings.
Photography of the scenery is splendid, and costumes appear very appropriate for that period.
No matter the color of her hair, Cate Blanchett is a beauty and a marvelous actress.

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