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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0715515024129
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Criterion Collection
Manufacturer: Criterion Collection
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 50155
Studio: Criterion Collection
Theatrical Release Date: February 19, 1968
Editorial Review:
Description:
A Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris is sent by his parents to the countryside to live with an elderly Catholic couple until France’s liberation. Forced to hide his identity, the eight-year-old, Claude (played delicately by first-time actor Alain Cohen), bonds with the irascible, staunchly anti-Semitic Grampa (Michel Simon), who improbably becomes his friend and confidant. Poignant and lighthearted, The Two of Us was acclaimed director Claude Berri’s debut feature, based on his own childhood experiences, and gave the legendary Simon one of his most memorable roles in the twilight of his career.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Touching WWII Story of a Jewish boy and Catholic family
This is a wonderful film. It is in French with Engilsh sub titles. It takes place in German occupied France. A young couple send their 8 yr old boy to the country to stay with the land ladies parents. He has to keep his secret that he is a jew and pretend to be at Catholic. The old man is so funny and so in love with his old dog that he feeds at the table from a spoon. The couple are so kind to the boy. The child has fears and is not treated too well by the other children but the old man is is friend. ... Read More
Rating: - Thanks, Criterion, for bringing us this no-longer-rare gem
The guy who played the old man wasn't summoned from a nearby street corner. Revered actor Michel Simon comfortably inhabits the character of Pepe. Simon was a veteran of over 100 performances, dating back to Carl Dreyer's late-'20s cinematic tone poem The Passion of Joan of Arc. Long beloved of French audiences by the time this film was made: this isn't the final role in his career but among his later ones.
An inestimable moment among many is Pepe and Mèmè's passive-aggressive struggle ... Read More
Rating: - A Gem
A lovely story, rich with characters that stay with you. Good (important) for the whole family to see.
Rating: - A Friend in Need
I had heard the "The Two of Us" is a great movie and I was not oversold; it IS a great movie! It gives us a personal look Occupied France, anti-Semitism, and the needs of two people who have lost their connections. The way the movie brings these two characters, an old man and a boy, together is intelligently done. Once they're united, the movie really takes off.
The boy is a Jewish child from Paris whose mischeviousness seems to draw a lot of attention to himself; just what his parents don't ... Read More
Rating: - THE ENEMY WITHIN
1967. First full-length movie written and directed by Claude Berri. This film earned three awards during the 1967 Berlin International Film Festival. This Criterion DVD also presents Claude Berri's short film LE POULET which earned the Oscar in 1962. Masterpiece.
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