2008 · war · history
Female Agents
Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé1h 57m2008
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Our read: Female Agents (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded war · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured war / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
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- intense
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“You want a WWII commando thriller led by fierce French women on a rescue mission.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if you want prestige war drama; this is slick B-movie action.
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