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90 Detroit Jewish News
Special to the Jewish News
ankinab high in all of the
current opinion polls as
one of the top news stories
of the 20th century, World
War II continues to make entertain-
ment news on the eve of the 21st
coming alive through the medium of
film. In recent years, moviegoers have
seen the Normandy invasion, the bat-
tle for Guadalcanal, concentration
camp stories and more.
Now comes Lucie Aubrac, based on
a true story about a history teacher
and the exploits of her family during
the French Resistance movement in
1943. The story is taken from her
book, Outwitting the Gestapo.
Lucie (Carole Bouquet) helps her-
Jewish husband, Raymond (Daniel
Auteuil), in the Claude Berri film
"Lucie Aubrac."
Since it's her book, Lucie gets the
movie title credit, but the story really
is a tribute to all of the heroic freedom
fighters of the Resistance.
The English-subtitled film was
Fact And Fiction
A longtime acquaintance of the real Lucie Aubrac
gives mixed reviews to her on-screen portrayal.
SAM ENGLAND
Staff Writer
e release today of Lucie
ubrac gives Detroit area
moviegoers the opportunity
to see the story of the French
Resistance from the perspective of one
of its heroines.
This is encouraging news, says
Margaret Weitz, who researches and
writes about women of the Resistance.
The more exposure we have to such an
important but little-known figure of
World War II, the better, she says.
"Women of the Resistance have been
largely overlooked."
Weitz, a professor of humanities and
modern languages at Suffolk University
in Boston, Mass., has known Aubrac for
some 15 years. And she has reservations
about the film's accuracy
"[Lucie] is a very strong woman, very
committed," Weitz says of Aubrac, now 84
years old. "Even before the war, she was
very active against what was going on: anti-
Semitism from the Nazis and, remember,
the Vichy government as well."
The film's publicity materials describe
Aubrac as "cunning, resourceful and
romantic." But, says Weitz, director
Claude Berri emphasizes the latter quali-
ty more than the other two.
"I think the film pretty much shows
the intensity of the relationship
[between Lucie and her husband
Raymond]," says Weitz, whose main
criticism of the film is that Aubrac's
more strategic abilities are downplayed.
"There's a scene, for example, of when
they're planning the escape of her husband,
Raymond. And you see Lucie's character
standing in the background, not doing
much at all. This is not Lucie Aubrac."
The real Aubrac, according to Weitz,
was instrumental in freeing her husband
from the Nazis, who planned to execute
him, and in many Resistance endeavors.