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  The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Resistance, Rebellion and Death
Lacombe, Lucien is an unlikely sequel, as morally provocative a film about the question of social and individual guilt as has ever been made.
Or Lucien's execution may simply be meant to recall us from a world of pastroal make-believe, where no one seems guilty because everything is so beautiful, to the harsh world where men have to make rough-and-ready distinctions between the guilty and the innocent if they and their freedoms are to survive.
Lucien's actions are produced by the reaction of external events on instincts, and his instincts are peasant instincts.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=110835   (1603 words)

  
 Lacombe Lucien / Lacombe, Lucien / Louis Malle / 1974 / film review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
However, whilst initially revelling in his new-found position of power, Lucien begins to have second thoughts when he meets and falls in love with a young woman, who is the daughter of a Jewish tailor he has been persecuting.
Lacombe Lucien is a brilliant study of the corruption of innocence and the realisation of guilt in a young impressionable adult.
The fact that Lucien’s happiness is short-lived and that he is ultimately condemned at the hands of his fellow country men, despite his evident rejection of Nazism, makes this a genuinely tragic story.
frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Lacombe_Lucien_rev.html   (351 words)

  
 Lacombe Lucien - Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement 1974
Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police.
Lacombe Lucien is an understated yet complex story of innocence corrupted by war.
The moral ambiguity of Lucien Lacombe, the innocent boy who happily and childishly turns into a Nazi collaborator for the adventure of being in a war, is chilling.
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 Songs from the Second Screen: Lacombe Lucien
Lucien Lacombe is een stugge, dommige boerenzoon, die zijn geld verdient als schoonmaker in een gesticht.
Lacombe geeft geen enkele blijk van inzicht of zelfs interesse in de nationaal-socialistische ideologie.
Lucien Lacombe kun je niet simpelweg afdoen als de personificatie van de duivel zelf; hij is in de eerste, tweede en derde plaats vooral een toerekeningsvatbare boerenlul.
secondscreen.blogspot.com /2006/05/lacombe-lucien.html   (1105 words)

  
 Lacombe Lucien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lacombe Lucien is a 1974 French motion picture that tells the story of a young boy living under the German occupation of France in World War II.
In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region, has been refused by the résistance.
Because the main character from Lacombe Lucien is similar to the teenage milicien in Jean Genet's novel Funeral Rites (1949), Malle sent Genet an early version of the script and traveled to Calabria to confer with him about the project.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lacombe_Lucien   (269 words)

  
 Lacombe Lucien
Lucien accepte un travail qui pourrait sembler anodin (ouvrir les enveloppes), et voit M. Tonin s'en aller torturer l'instituteur les mains dans les poches et en sifflotant, comme d'autres vont au bureau.
Lucien la regarde partir avant de tourner la tête vers la valise, puis de s'en approcher.
Lucien lui donne la montre, mais le léger temps de réaction, son silence et son air buté indiquent sa contrariété.
www.cndp.fr /tice/teledoc/dossiers/dossier_lacombe.htm   (4826 words)

  
 Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France
Lacombe Lucien was a popular film at the French box office in 1974 - it came 6th in the year of Emmanuelle - but the film was not without its critics.
Malle's Lacombe Lucien was an important event culturally as it marked a key moment in France's difficult coming-to-terms with the so-called années noires of Occupation, a new stage in the `Vichy syndrome'.
Lucien is the voyeur, a scene which is repeated in different forms throughout the film (Lucien watching a torture scene in the hotel bathroom, watching Jean-Bernard de Voisins and Betty Beaulieu in their open-top car etc.).
www.sunderland.ac.uk /~os0tmc/occupied/malle.htm   (2840 words)

  
 TIME.com: Corruption's Toys -- Oct. 14, 1974 -- Page 1
Lucien is beguiled by the style in which the police maintain themselves: an elegant chateau, sleek automobiles, well-cut clothes, good food and drink, compliant women.
As with Lucien, the foundation for national tragedy is laid quietly, and is built upon with a terrible ease.
Lucien is understandable but not especially likable, a state of affairs that solves the film's intellectual problems even as it raises dramatic ones.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,908832,00.html   (827 words)

  
 Lacombe Lucien - Wikipedio
En mikra urbo ye sud-westo di Francia, Lucien Lacombe, yuna rurano ekirar hospico ube il facas laborechi, por paser kelka dii en lia vilajo e se posible restar hike.
La sola loko ube Lucien esas vere libera to esas en meze di naturo kun lia forco e qualesi di chasero.
Lucien, superirita da evementi, esas prenita en ingranajo.
io.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lacombe_Lucien   (372 words)

  
 BBC - BBC Four Cinema - Lacombe, Lucien
Lacombe, Lucien was photographed by Tonino Delli Colli, famous for his work on Fellini's last films.
Easily seduced by the power and apparent glamour of the position, he fingers one of his villagers (an old teacher) and relishes a newfound sense of belonging that allows him to forget his old life.
In Lacombe, Lucien, the hero assumes a position of authority without maturity, playing the role of a Gestapo officer as he sees fit and lording his power over the tailor (significantly, old enough to be his father).
www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/cinema/features/lacombe.shtml   (367 words)

  
 Lacombe, Lucien | Fenway Views   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Few films about the German occupation of France have had the moral force and clarity of Lacombe, Lucien, a disquieting portrait of a young peasant, desperate for social acceptance, who is rejected by the Resistance for his lack of commitment.
Soon an expert in hunting down and torturing people for the Gestapo, he falls in love with Frances Horn, the daughter of a Jewish tailor, failing to recognize the ensuing moral dilemma.
Without ever mentioning the subject of innocence and guilt, Lacombe, Lucien, in its calm leisurely way, addresses it on a deeper level than any other movie I know” (Pauline Kael).
fenway-views.com /film/lacombe_lucien_0   (145 words)

  
 dOc DVD Review: Three Films by Louis Malle (Murmur of the Heart / Lacombe, Lucien / Au revoir les enfants) (1971-1987)
Performing janitorial duties in a hospital, Lucien is a skilled hunter and kind to his mother, giving her much of his own earnings as they eke their way through the Vichy government's corrupt reign.
It's important to note that Lucien himself is not particularly violent, but that his emotional immaturity presents the potential for violent acts.
Lucien Lacombe's actions are reason for outrage, but Lacombe, Lucien is reason for rejoice.
www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=8495   (3197 words)

  
 Static Multimedia - 3 Films by Louis Malle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lucien Lacombe (Pierre Blaise) is a young, not very bright hospital orderly in a French village at the height of the Occupation.
Like Laurent, Lucien is understood to be a character whose moral compass is not yet fixed to a broader understanding of the way in which morality functions in society.
Without denying the skill with which Lacombe, Lucien was made, the local press attacked the film as "anti-French." The ensuing ostracism forced Malle to leave France for America.
www.staticmultimedia.com /content/film/reviews/dvd/review_1142734998   (2030 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Lacombe, Lucien
Set in France in 1944, it follows 17-year-old farmboy Lucien (Pierre Blaise), who works as an orderly in a village infirmary when not spending time on the farm once owned by his imprisoned father.
Lucien exposes a cruel streak early on when he kills a chirping bird with a slingshot, exhibits unrestrained joy in hunting rabbits, and when he coldly catches a farmyard chicken, pounding it to death with his bare hands.
Lucien's mother repeatedly reassures herself and others that he's a "good boy," and those that he encounters comment that he doesn't look like a thug or a torturer.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/l/lacombelucien_cc.q.shtml   (601 words)

  
 The Criterion Collection: Lacombe Lucien
One of the first French films to address the issue of collaboration during the German Occupation, Louis Malle’s brave and controversial Lacombe, Lucien traces a young peasant’s journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit.
At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy, the film is a disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.
Lacombe, Lucien is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=329   (249 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Lacombe, Lucien: DVD: Pierre Blaise,Aurore Clément,Holger Löwenadler,Therese Giehse,Stéphane Bouy,Loumi ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Louis Malle's Lacombe, Lucien still impresses, although it does tend to amble in the third act just when you might expect it to tighten its grip.
LACOMBE LUCIEN, directed by Louis Malle, is a film that tells the story of Lucien, a troubled young man who appears to have few friends and is not welcome at home.
Lucien has an ambivalent reaction to the rebuff and we assume he'll just continue his employment at the nursing home.
www.amazon.com /Lacombe-Lucien-Pierre-Blaise/dp/B000E1YVZ0   (1500 words)

  
 Lacombe Lucien Film Review - Time Out Film
World War II France is under German occupation, and Lucien finds himself acting out his adolescent emotions, gun in hand, within the eerie schema of Fascism.
The second is the precision and total lack of histrionics with which the mechanics of compromise are mapped.
It has one major weakness; having drawn Lucien from the fringe of the action to the centre of the screen, Malle seems unable to bridge the gap between himself and the character.
www.timeout.com /film/79989.html   (212 words)

  
 Lacombe Lucien - Moviefone
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The issue is that Lucien probably does not know what he is doing or why but he just feels like a job and that he is wanted.
Therefore, a few minutes is spent on the happy days of Lucien where he finally gets to be a boy again but all was cut short when he is arrested and executed (though we do not see that).
Nevertheless, Lucien is the main character and though the viewers may not sympathize with him, he rally cannot be held in too much for his actions because he is … empty.
www.freewebs.com /carrisa84/lacombelucien1974.htm   (1064 words)

  
 Lacombe Lucien (1974) - Channel 4 Film review
Together with Max Ophuls's superlative documentary The Sorrow And The Pity, Lacombe Lucien helped shatter the Gaullist myth of universal resistancialisme to the German occupation of France during World War Two.
Lacombe Lucien illustrates the writer Hannah Arendt's celebrated phrase "the banality of evil", which she used in covering the Eichmann trial.
Malle's protagonist Lucien (Blaise) is very much a social outcast, whose father is being held in a German prisoner-of-war camp, and whose mother is now sleeping with the landlord, who has rented out the farm belonging to Lucien's family.
www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=105105   (251 words)

  
 Lacombe, playing at Cornell Cinema   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
18-year-old Lucien (Pierre Blaise) is biding time and stomaching his boredom in the rural south of France as the rest of the country subsumes itself under German occupation, and Lucien's own mother is conducting an affair while his father languishes somewhere as a prisoner of war.
Left without ideals or avenues out of his life, Lucien feels the seductive tug of fascist complicity, even as he grows close to the Jewish daughter of a local tailor, played by the haunting Aurore Clement (Paris, Texas, Apocalypse Now Redux).
Like Bertolucci's legendary The Conformist, filmed almost simultaneously, Lacombe Lucien's portrait of how fascism seeps into the cracks of daily life is both emotionally and intellectually challenging.
cinema.cornell.edu /Jan06/lacombe.html   (151 words)

  
 The Detroit Institute of Arts
In the summer of 1944, the 17-year-old Lucien Lacombe (Pierre Blaise) is a seemingly ordinary kid who works in a rural French nursing home.
But the Resistance turns him down, and with scarcely a moment’s pause Lucien finds that he has no qualms about taking a different job—collaborator with the Gestapo.
Malle’s great Lacombe, Lucien is one of the most quietly overwhelming films ever made about war, and about the personal forces that drive the often unfathomable decisions that men make.
www.dia.org /dft/item.asp?webitemid=416   (147 words)

  
 Four by Louis Malle | The A.V. Club
The former stars Benoît Ferreux as a provincial teen mired in the petty thievery and emotional distress of adolescence, while the latter has Pierre Blaise as another provincial teen who becomes an informer/enforcer for the Nazis.
The two stories are separated by a decade—Murmur is set in 1954, Lacombe in 1944—and by the gulf between rich and poor.
Both are about shocking behavior in morally corrupt times, though Murmur tells its story of colonial guilt and intimate mother-son relationships with a nostalgic buoyancy, while Lacombe is hushed and, even with the preponderance of handheld shots, unnervingly static.
www.avclub.com /content/node/48342   (414 words)

  
 USCCB - (Film & Broadcasting) - French director Louis Malle's films given exquisite DVD treatment
There are some contemporaneous excerpts from French TV showing him making "Murmur" and "Lacombe, Lucien" along with audio-only interviews from the American Film Institute in 1988 and the National Film Theater in both 1974 and 1990.
The set also includes Charlie Chaplin's 1917 "The Immigrant," which the young boys in "Au Revoir" are taken to see.
When the Gestapo discover that a priest has hidden three Jewish youths in a Catholic boys' school, he and the boys are arrested and deported to concentration camps.
www.nccbuscc.org /movies/newdvdvideo/louismalle.shtml   (696 words)

  
 Lacombe, Lucien (French with English Subtitles) - Drama Classic Movies on DVD (1974) - Janus Films : Oldies.com
Lacombe, Lucien (French with English Subtitles) - Drama Classic Movies on DVD (1974) - Janus Films : Oldies.com
One of the first French films to address the issue of collaboration during the German occupation.
Louis Malle's brave and controversial Lacombe, Lucien traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit.
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 Lacombe Lucien (1974)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Plot Summary: A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944.
Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe...
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 Lacombe, Lucien (DVD) - Movie Gold Mine
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Malle's film, set in France during the Nazi Occupation, centres on Lucien (Pierre Blaise in an excellent performance), a simple farmhand not long out of school, with a penchant for shooting rabbits.
After failing to hook up with the Resistance movement, he ends up working for the Gestapo and starts to fall for France Horn (Clément), the daughter of a local Jewish tailor.
www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews20/Lacombe_Lucien_dvd_review.htm   (390 words)

  
 3 Films by Louis Malle: Murmur of the Heart; Lacombe, Lucien; Au Revoir Les Enfants - 3/13/2006 - Video Business Online
Two rather brief on-screen interviews from TV series Pour Le Cinema find Malle stressing that his films are not historical works per se and discussing his decision to cast a non-professional in the lead role of Lacombe, Lucien.
Biographer Pierre Billard provides an overview of Malle's early life and his favorite themes, while Bergen provides personal reminiscences of her late husband.
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www.videobusiness.com /article/CA6315803.html   (371 words)

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