Lacombe Lucien (1974)
Another film by Louis Malle and set in the south of France in 1944. Beautifully filmed with gorgeous locations and an equally pretty lead (Pierre Blaise), but slowly paced and “atmospheric”–the characters never say quite enough to reveal who they are or what their motivations might be and I struggled to like any of them. The lead is a villian, but as the father of the girl he is banging put it, “It is strange. I cannot seem to bring myself to despise you completely.”
