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richard-abrams
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Arch of Triumph (1948)
A fine film of war-time Paris
10 December 2005 - 37 out of 45 users found this review helpful.
Pay no attention to high-brow detractors; if you want to see a luminous Ingrid Bergman and a world-weary Charles Boyer at their film noir best, run--do not walk--to your nearest store and buy this film (VHS only, unfortunately).
Do not expect sparks to fly between these war-time lovers--Bergman as a kept woman carried along willy-nilly by forces beyond her control, and Boyer as a physician and resistance member on the run in occupied Paris--their encounters are brief and ill-starred, save only for the deep tenderness that occasionally surfaces, especially at the film's end.
Casablanca it's not, but it will disappoint no lover of this genre.
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