Lacombe, Lucien 1974 123movies

Watch: Lacombe Lucien 1974 123movies, Full Movie Online – A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police. He then meets France Horn, the daughter of a rich jewish tailor..
Plot: In Louis Malle’s lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 7,299
	100% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 103 Popularity: 7.275 | TMDB

Reviews:

There’s not much like it,…
Lucien Lamcombe is the title character of this story about a French teen who joins the German police on a lark during the last year of WWII. A short time earlier, he’d volunteered for the Resistance but was rejected–why he so willingly joined the Nazis was tough to decipher–as were his motives apart from that as well as his inner world. In fact, the young man is like a puzzle with several missing pieces–he just exists and seems to have no depth or much personality–much like the main character in Albert Camus’ “The Stranger”. He IS–and that’s about all you can say about this rather bland and amoral character.

Despite the war having been over for nearly three decades, this film apparently did not do well in France. Perhaps they just didn’t want to be reminded that many “good people” willingly collaborated or maybe the wounds were just too fresh.

I liked the film and recommend it, though I must admit director Malle’s style is quite unusual and nothing like a Hollywood product. It isn’t just because the title character is so amorphous, but the entire story of the film. While there is a little music here and there, it’s generally a very quiet film with many long camera shots where not a lot occurs–and seems quite “arty” as a result. Also, there is so much vagueness about the final portion of the film. It just ends very abruptly and there is a slapped on summary of what happened next–almost like they were saying “scene missing here” and instead of re-filming it they just gave a summary of would have been the final ten minutes or so. To me, this was very dissatisfying–particularly because there was no mention of what happened with the girl or her grandmother. Perhaps because the film already was quite long (about 140 minutes), they just decided to end it this way to save costs for film! Whatever the reason, this brought the film from an 8 to a score of 7. An unusual, compelling and odd film–there certainly isn’t much like it out there.

UPDATE–I spoke with a friend about this film and the more we talked, the more I now realize that what I didn’t like about this film (even though it is still a good movie) is that the main character is not consistent nor does he seem to have any depth. Because he is so immature and bland, I could imagine someone seeing this film and actually feeling sorry for or at least excusing his evil. No matter how “nice” he becomes later in the film, his actions are inexcusable and I didn’t want to connect with him and I found this a bit disturbing. Still, it is an unusual and thought-provoking work.

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 2 hr 18 min (138 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance, War
Director Louis Malle
Writer Louis Malle, Patrick Modiano
Actors Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler
Country France, Italy, West Germany
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Eastman Kodak, USA, Laboratoires Franay Tirages Cinematographiques (LTC), Paris, France
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm