The Accompanist Reviews

It is once again a rather obscure French movie which not much people have seen here in Listal. It was directed by Claude Miller, a very good French director who passed away recently and never really reached a great success abroad which is too bad. I remember that this movie got some rather solid reviews in France and it’s too bad it is totally forgotten nowadays. The first interesting in this flick was to see Richard Bohringer and Romane Bohringer working together, even though their characters were not actually related. After giving Charlotte Gainsbourg her breakthrough with ‘L’effrontée’, he did pretty much the same thing for Romane Bohringer who has become since then one of the most highly regarded actresses working in France, even though she never managed to built up an international career (she did play with Leonardo DiCaprio in ‘Total Eclipse’ but it is definitely one of his more obscure movies). Anyway, coming back to our main feature, it is an intriguing drama taking place in WWII and, in contrary to most French movies dealing with this period, the characters were not necessarily bad or good, they were very well developed and quite fascinating to behold. To conclude, even though it is a rather obscure flick, it is actually pretty good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in French movies.