benny-rigaux-bricmont

December 2023. Watching this 4k restauration confirms that this masterpiece has not aged a day. Just still speechless. The acting, the images and, indeed, the soundtrack are just perfect. Nothing to do with the version I saw in the fifties which was so truncated that it was hard to understand what was going on. Fortunately I saw it again in the Musée du Cinéma at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in a much better version. Then I really thought that it was a masterpiece. Watching it now confirms that I was not wrong at the time. Looks like I still need 40 characters to be eligible with this review. So I will finish with two words: Forever Outstanding.

Completely unbelievable. And, to top it off, the CN train doesn't even stop after wrecking a car? Well the conductor was probably calling an insurance company.

Was a perfect series until season 5 which would be unexpectedly the last one. Rather than wasting the last two episodes with tearful good byes, it would have been much better to wrap up a lot of the previous characters'story lines.

Not obvious the real writer of the book knows russian as he was supposed to at some point in the movie.

Very well acted this movie reproduces perfectly the depressing mood of the time when the book was written(1944). Great idea to place it in the modern France.