The Blood of Others [Le Sang des Autres] * (1984, Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Sam Neill, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Audran) – Classic Movie Review 6267

Director Claude Chabrol’s 1984 World War Two drama, set in German occupied Paris under the horrors of Nazism, is very strongly cast but over-long at 135 minutes and struggling. Brian Moore adapts the novel by Simone de Beauvoir.

Jodie Foster and Michael Ontkean are miscast as French sweethearts Hélène and Jean, and so is Sam Neill as Bergmann, the German administrator official out to do anything to get Foster’s love. Hélène is torn her resistance worker boyfriend Jean and the persistent Bergmann.

The multi-lingual Foster looped all her own dialogue in French.

It also stars Lambert Wilson, Stéphane Audran, Alexandra Stewart, and John Vernon.

Also in the cast are Jean-François Balmer, Marie Bunel, Roger Mirmont, Christine Laurent, Kate Reid, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Monique Mercure, Michel Robin, Micheline Presle, Renaud Verley, Marcel Guy and Samuel Fuller.

It is shot by Richard Ciupka, produced by Denis Heeroux and John Kemeny, and scored by Matthieu Chabrol.

© Derek Winnert 2017 Classic Movie Review 6267

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