It was a marvelous group—conspirators, imprisoner, prisoner, traitor—all under the watchful eye of mother-in-law. Eating and drinking, the party fellowshipped with the happy tension of a family reunion.
The scene alone is shocking. You have the Fols (French conspirators), German Hugo Bleicher (the enemy and imprisoner), his French girlfriend (traitor), Peter (British prisoner), and an American mother-in-law all sitting for lunch in occupied Paris! You couldn’t even make this up.
Bleicher’s mixed and complicated character (enemy one day, caretaker the next) is why two Hollywood players have told me he is “Academy Award bait.”
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