Wordiezett So much average

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

zorro2a What a fantastic film is Charlotte Grey, she is a young lady who joins the British Government and trains as an agent and sent to France during the 2nd world war to liaise with the underground to fight the German Army. Unofficially she is searching for her airman lover Peter who has been shot down, that's all l'm saying, the acting is first class, and there are quite a few good actors, James Fleet (Vicar of Dibley) Rupert Penry-Jones (Spooks) Michael Gambon, Billy Crudup is so good as the hot head who is calmed down by Charlotte played by Kate Blachett who takes the character to the next level, the music is excellent, and the photography is beautiful, all in all this is a great film, and l gave it 10 out of 10 and would recommend it to anyone, you may need a hankie for the final scene.

depsusie I just viewed the excellent movie Charlotte Gray... it was showed on cable immediately after another same period flick ,'Head in the Clouds'. The cinematography , lighting , landscapes were so beautiful and the script just plain awesome. I hate war movies of all types and I was surprised when I didn't snap these two movies off when I saw they were WWII movies. Most of them do absolutely no justice to the horrors and heroism of the personal stories of the people living this nightmare.However, these two movies brought the pain and difficulties of war experienced by our parents into my consciousness in a manner I could really understand. I was transported into the moments of futility of her situation as she became trapped in this particular place in France and the moment when she was told her lover was dead. Charlotte was a patriot and had reached the point where even that failed her and she was able to carry on.. simply because there was nothing else she could do, if she wanted her life and the children to survive.Powerful-powerful movie .. all actors were phenomenal. It brought a tear to my eyes that I had never considered the things my parents experienced when they were living WWII. I wish I had known, I would have cherished their strength and perhaps would have wanted to learn more from them to be a whole human being capable of such an enormous love.I would give anything, to have understood their struggles and to know just how really deep their actions and sacrifices were for the things they were passionate about... their country, freedom, love and family.Thanks to the folks creating this movie - history came to life. No matter that it wasn't totally factual... I imagine the reality was even worst than depicted.

zee I have a bias to confess: I could not see too many WWII spy films, read too many Ken Follett novels, get bored by the genre or complain of familiar stories told again. Today's narratives admittedly pit a clear evil force--the Nazis--against "good guy" spies, without delving into the moral complexities that might have led a decent German to join the Nazi party or search deeply into the evils that real spies did as a matter of fact, believing the ends to justify the means. While I understand that the real history is much more morally complex, the good guy-bad guy plots in the WWII spy genre are still satisfying to some more simple side of my personality.Charlotte Gray is every bit as good as any other such film in the genre that I can recall. Admittedly, there are some ridiculous plot points (why the French fellow doesn't get shot down for yelling at the Nazis in tanks is still a mystery to me, and I thought her risking her life apparently just to write a letter to the condemned children was illogical--why not save yourself for the chance to save some other children instead?), but then what movie do I see that hasn't three or four illogical moments? I have no idea why this particular film is so despised, though I have to wonder if it is because a woman is the heroic character. I thought we'd come beyond such silliness, but lately, I've been thinking, no, there is still a lot of male anxiety about strong women, even if they are safely far away in time and place, and I suspect that has skewed the response to the movie.My strongest negative reaction to the film was the same one I have to most recent Hollywood films, and is why I never go to see one at the cinema or even buy many DVDs: the women are too thin, unhealthily thin, hideous to look at for that, and Blanchett qualifies there. This actually interrupts my suspension of disbelief: whenever I see a full-body shot of a size 0 actress, I'm diverted while I think "eat a damned sandwich! Get some eating disorders therapy!" My awareness of the health crisis that this aesthetic is precipitating in our young women always detracts from my enjoyment of movies after that fact. Additionally, it isn't correct historically. Beauty in the 1940's was not stick-thinness, it was a size 10 full-busted woman.

gelman@attglobal.net After her one night stand with a bomber pilot whom she immediately falls in love with, Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchette), a young Scotswoman who speaks perfect French, agrees to be parachuted into Vichy France as liaison with the French underground because her boyfriend has been shot down, and she hopes somehow to find him. Most of the film takes place, however, in and around the small French town where Charlotte has landed. With her principal contact in the underground, Julien Levade (Billy Crudup) and his colleagues, Charlotte participates in blowing up a German train headed South with a load of tanks and other military equipment. The Nazis promptly occupy the town. Charlotte, meanwhile, has been sent to live with Julien's father (Michael Gambon) and to take care of two Jewish children whose parents were rounded up and dispatched to a work camp and presumably to their deaths. Eventually the children are found and Levade is determined to be a Jew (though he is not) and likewise sent away with the children. Julien claims that he too is Jewish but that assertion is waved away by the authorities on grounds that he could only be one-eighth Jewish and not therefore subject to the race laws. Soon we are back in England where Charlotte is reunited with her pilot boyfriend, who has turned up alive though believed dead, but Charlotte rejects him and returns to France after the way to find Julien with whom she has fallen in love. Perhaps it is explained in the book, but the film does not provide any real basis for understanding Charlotte's decision to abandon her pilot and return to her companion in the underground with whom the only kiss and cuddle she exchanged while the two were attempting to annoy and ultimately overpower the Nazi soldier who is guarding them. Blanchette, Crudup and Gambon are excellent actors, and Gillian Armstrong is quite an accomplished director. But variations on this plot have been screened on a dozen occasions, and this one leaves unexplained gaps, only one of which I've cited. It is worth seeing, provided you don't expect too much.