Le Jour et l'Heure (1963)

Jour et l'Heure, Le (1963, FRA/ITA) B&W-118m. SCOPE *** D: René Clement. Starring Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page, Michel Piccoli, Reggie Nalder, Billy Kearns, Marcel Bozzuffi, Jacques Herlin. Clement's assured direction makes the difference in this WW2 drama about Signoret, a reluctant helper of the Résistance, who takes in American pilot Whitman and tries to help him escape to Spain. Longish but engrossing, with fine black-and-white cinematography by Henri Decae. Clément also coscripted. Costa-Gavras and Claude Pinoteau were his assistant directors. English titles: THE DAY AND THE HOUR, and TODAY WE LIVE.


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