Female Agents (2008)
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
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Undescribable Perfection
It is a performances centric movie
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
A bit like a female-cast, French-with-subtitles version of The Dirty Dozen, with just a smidgen of a James Bond flick. Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers it ain't, but it's a good WW II story. A story about brave women, and only one feminist line in it ("You would never have done this to men," in a situation in which, the guy would certainly have done the same to men.
(French with English subtitles on Netflix)An excellent WW2 French resistance film based on a real life highly decorated French heroine who died in 2004 at age 98. Marceau portrays a woman with and on a deadly mission with selected other women not to seduce but to kill certain Germans in prep for D-Day. Marceau plays well her roles as sniper &/or assassin and team leader with a commanding yet understated performance. There's more to Marceau than has been seen - and probably more yet with the right Direction.Without showing everything about WW2 and German criminality, the film is well cast, directed, scored, and photographed. What a time it was ...
Al Murray did a program on War Movies this week. It was mentioned that females do not feature much. Well, if you want to see what they do in war this could be a starter! Also, read Chris Tarrant's book called 'Dad's War, Father, Soldier and Hero' and you will be in for a surprise in Burniere-suer-mere...a REAL story too. The movie above is very graphic and attempts to show SOE in another light. It always surprises me that the Natural History Museum never features in a movie about this as the HQ for SOE was there! In this movie, there is however a parallel to this fact so good on the French for showing this! I watched during the D-Day Celebrations, in French, in a village near Omaha, Normandy. This made this movie even more real as a result!
There is no doubt this is a very well-made movie, good cast and generally good handwork. The women are believable in their roles and the conflict is an exciting one. Look elsewhere for a synopsis. But... (potential spoiler) This movie starts out as a female agent movie but towards the end it has become rather a film about female being dressed naked, tortured, beaten. Which makes it into a very sad movie indeed. Namely because women being dressed naked tortured and beaten is not good entertainment, at least for those of us who love women. I present this as an "alternative view" review, because other people might say it would be necessary to show the cruelty of war, others might say it's not over the top cruel... the scenes could be worse and would have to be more explicit detailed if you where to call it a bad movie. There is many who likes this movie. But be warned... you might be offended, you might find it to be bad taste... at least thats my conclusion.