1996 · drama · war · french
A Self-Made Hero
Directed by Jacques Audiard1h 47m1996
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Our read: A Self-Made Hero (1996) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive drama · war · french entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / war, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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