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Friday, March 30, 2018

Allied (2016)

I still have a handful (well, now I have four) movies left to watch from the 2017 Oscar season, and it seems reasonable to try to wrap that one up (for example, 2016 is not as good and 2015 is a mess) .  This one features Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in a WWII spy movie. They are a surprisingly good couple, first as colleagues who conspire to kill an enemy of the Allies in Casablanca during WWII.  Shades of the movie of the same name, I know, but this is later in the war, when the Germans fully occupy Morocco.  Cotillard is trusted by the Germans, and her "husband is supposed to be French like her, but he is woefully under prepared for that role and she carries him over the goal line.  They inevitably fall in love and he moes her to London,w here his next assignment is.  She appears to give up the spy game to be a mother, and their love seems genuine enough, but in the end it all comes apart at the seams.  It was nominated in the area of costume, and it is my choice in the category (although I would be wrong about what the Academy chose).

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