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| | Metroactive Movies | 'Lucie Aubrac' |
 | | In fact, Berri seems to have omitted few details--from the grisly minutiae to extensive '40s-era exterior sets--and Lucie Aubrac, for all its admitted plot embellisments, is a painstakingly recreated period piece. |
 | | Nevertheless, in the midst of such careful realism, Berri always keeps the audience at arm's length, perhaps reflecting the necessity of constant vigilance for members of the Resistance, or the distance Berri himself, a youngster in World War II France, might understandably require to tell the story. |
 | | As Lucie, Carole Bouquet compensates somewhat for that distance; she quietly demands attention, bringing snap and cool intelligence to the role of a resourceful young Frenchwoman who engineers a clever scheme to free her husband from a Nazi prison. |
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