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movie review - Charlotte Gray

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a film about a Scottish woman (played by the excellent Cate Blanchett) who becomes a spy in Vichy France during WWII. It's a hazardous job that she undertakes in an attempt to find her love, a downed pilot.

Along the way, she finds herself surrounded by duplicitous scum and killers and relying on partners who are either of dubious merit or tempermental wildmen. She finds her world quite turned around by the events that follow, and returns quite a changed woman.

That part comes together as an interesting tale. One disappointment was that the movie glossed over some of the real horrors that occurred to such women in reality. Knowing from recent articles written about what these women faced, it seemed somewhat pretentious to have so much of the story about her falling in love.

Recommended.