Tall tale, with pseudodocumentary trimmings, about a perpetual outsider who invents a new persona for himself and enlists in the French Resistance safely after the Liberation. It speaks of, and to, those enduring human feelings of inferiority and envy, though the details of the transformation are not very convincingly imagined. And the somewhat rocky camera technique plays up the insubstantiality. And there are too many actors -- three -- in the principal role. Matthieu Kassovitz, best known as the director of Hate, makes a good match for the adolescent hero, but not for old Jean-Louis Trintignant. With Anouk Grinberg and Sandrine Kiberlain; directed by Jacques Audiard. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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