Le Dernier Métro (1980)

A film does not merely tell a story. It constructs a world into which one is drawn. It teaches how to construct a world of one's own.

Le Dernier Métro culminates in a compromise. It does not strive towards ideals that could be mixed at will. Instead, it offers a ready-made mixture, a dignified resignation, along with a manual spelt out in prose. It is a child conceived to be as old as its parent, now gone.