Cate Blanchett is becoming one of Australia's best known actresses worldwide and with good reason. She has the class, style, and appearance of a female movie star from the golden era of Hollywood. She is still a classic beauty but conveys intelligence, wit, and seriousness about her roles as a work of art. In the title role of Charlotte Grey, she plays a British woman who goes looking for the man she loves in the midst of World War II. He was a member of the Royal Air Force and his plane was shot down. Determined to find out his fate regardless of all the dangerous consequences, Charlotte assumes a new name and is taken in by a French family. They filmed the village scenes in Toulouse with locals as extras. Some remember when the Germans invaded France with great pain and anguish even to this day. The film is quietly strong but not for the cinema. It might have gotten better reception on Masterpiece Theater. The scenery, art direction, costumes are all first rate but the writing lacked something in my opinion.
Review of Charlotte Gray
