Rural France during World War II. Fiery and impulsive Marie is bored out of her skull, living in the ramshackle country mansion she shares with her husband and her mother-in-law. One day her blonde beauty catches the eye of a local Resistance commander. Simultaneously it also catches the eye of a German military officer. Who will gain or regain Marie's affections ?
Probably "La vie de château" was meant to be a comical adventure movie, but it is too superficial and inept to be witty, funny, thrilling or suspenseful. It's one of those movies that has little or nothing to say about the actual behaviour of actual human beings. By the same token it has little to say, for instance, about what it means to live during a war or to be the citizen of a country that has been defeated and occupied by an enemy.
Near the end there are a few incoherent battle scenes, which are about as convincing as the New Year celebrations of many a Chinese (or "Chinese") take-away restaurant abroad.
Probably "La vie de château" was meant to be a comical adventure movie, but it is too superficial and inept to be witty, funny, thrilling or suspenseful. It's one of those movies that has little or nothing to say about the actual behaviour of actual human beings. By the same token it has little to say, for instance, about what it means to live during a war or to be the citizen of a country that has been defeated and occupied by an enemy.
Near the end there are a few incoherent battle scenes, which are about as convincing as the New Year celebrations of many a Chinese (or "Chinese") take-away restaurant abroad.