Jacques Audiard directs Mathieu Kassovitz, Anouk Grinberg and Sandrine Kiberlain in this French post-World War II drama about a grifter who fakes a resistance record to start a new life.

Early softer Audiard. Does follow an underdog who works his way up the ranks, so there’s that. Kassovitz mild mannered hustler is a blank and a sponge. Everyone shows him how they lie to get by. Salesman, beggar, politician. He replicates. The ultimate take home is the whole system is bullshit. A documentary style framing device here, a beautiful love interest or two there, some intrigue. Ultimately a process movie but one with enough mystery to be watchable.

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