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Charlotte Gray

Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, Rupert Penry-Jones and Anton Lesser

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CHARLOTTE GRAY is directed by Gillian Armstrong (MRS. SOFFEL OSCAR AND LUCINDA) with her signature recipe for success--a love story set in beautiful scenery played by an all-star cast. Here Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett) is a Scottish woman in mid-WWII living with an adventuresome pair of young female roommates. While attending a snooty book publishing party Charlotte escapes from her girlfriends long enough to meet a British pilot Peter (Rupert Penry-Jones) with whom she falls in love. After a brief but passionate affair Peter is sent on a mission to Nazi-occupied France where his plane is shot down and he is reported M.I.A. Torn apart by love Charlotte enlists herself as an underground operative in the resistance and accepts a mission to rural France. Charlotte now working under the code name Dominique parachutes out of an airplane and captures two young Jewish boys in her net. The man who untangles the bunch Julien (Billy Crudup) becomes her one trusted contact and arranges a job for her as governess to the two boys hiding out in the chateau owned by his curmudgeonly father (Michael Gambon). BR Presenting a beautiful love story complicated by WWII tension Armstrong creates a photographically impeccable film with a strong orchestral score and a capable utterly attractive cast. CHARLOTTE GRAY is based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.

Charlotte Gray Review

Adapted from the critically acclaimed novel by Sebastian Faulks "Charlotte Gray" tells the story of a young woman (Cate Blanchett) whose life changes beyond recognition after she is recruited as an undercover agent during World War Two. After a brief but passionate affair with a young pilot she is told he has been shot down in France and soon volunteers for a mission across the channel herself, with the secret belief that she may be able to rescue him.

Blanchett gives another fine performance as the heroine of the title, the ever versatile and chameleon-like Billy Crudup is splendid as the young communist freedom fighter Charlotte is forced to turn to for help, and veteran British thesp Michael Gambon plays Crudupp's initially grumpy and unapproachable Father with his usual skill. But the film is ultimately unrewarding and surprisingly slight, perhaps because we are asked to focus on little more than Charlotte's growing self-awareness, while far greater dramas play out around her as the inhuman treatment of Jews by the Geman occupying forces and their French collaborators comes slowly to the fore. Although the scenes in wartime France end in the depressingly inevitable way they seemingly must, it does mean that the changes we see in Charlotte - which are at the centre of the film – seem trivial and unimportant by comparison.