ada the leading man is my tpye

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

polluxaks4 Essentially a woman on the prowl; chases down a stud, beds him, calls it love. Then the stud who is in RAF gets shot down; she takes up scheme as foreign agent to rescue her lover. Once assigned she falls in with communist resistance fighters eventually participates with a guy who turns on his own father, supposedly to save his two children, but in fact gets the father, his two children sent off to concentration camps to be gassed, causes the maid to be killed by the butt of a rifle. Our heroine is told stud lover was killed not captured; war ends heroine returns to England, and lo and behold by happenstance runs into her stud lover airman...he's alive... happy ending...nope she is cold as a clam when she meets stud cause she realizes she's in love with communist contact and leaves for France to find new stud who has the blood of his father and children on his hands. Ending? Both low life's deserve each other. Movies ends with a thud. Wasted time.

writers_reign Okay, you know going in that it's yet another film about a female agent liaising with the Resistance in Occupied France during World War Two, some viewers may even have read the (undeservedly) best-selling novel on which it was based, but you go anyway, maybe you admire Cate Blanchett and I've no quarrel with that, she's a fine actress, maybe you like 'period' movies, again you won't hear a squawk out of me, in fact those two reasons were what prompted me. It's a good movie - well, it's not a BAD movie, but perhaps in this case the opposite of bad is NOT good. An indifferent movie is nearer the truth. Within the last couple of years an English newspaper gave away a series of dvds set in WWII one of which was Carve Her Name With Pride which covers much of the same ground except that it was about a REAL Resistance worker, Violette Szabo, who failed to survive the war unlike the fictional Gray; Carve Her Name, made in black and white is light years better than the Technicolored Charlotte Gray, Blanchett's fine performance notwithstanding. As long as we're making comparisons I also disagree with the person who unaccountably rated this movie higher than Claude Berri's Lucie Aubrac but then difference of opinion is what makes horse races.

melp1981 I know this is a serious board devoted to the merits of the movie... but I would like to just mention the fact that rarely does an actor have the effect on me that Billy Crudup did in this film. Oh my god what a beauty! Perfect in every way... And obviously extremely talented, made more perfect by his professional choices!So, the film. Well, as a (some time ago) graduate of military history, with a particular interest in the sociological effects of war I have a special fondness for stories like this. I sought out the book and devoured it. I loved it, absolutely, as I do pretty much everything else by Sebastian Faulks. I also enjoyed this film immensely, but as a separate entity. A film is generally incapable of reaching the depths your imagination can take you to through reading a truly great book, maybe people should spend more time reading! I don't agree with the mauling this film was given by the critics, it kept me engaged from beginning to end and the happy ending, although a little trite, is a smile worthy event!Sod the dodgy Scottish, Kate Blanchet was believable as far as I'm concerned. Billy was perfect, as I think I might have mentioned! Michael Gambon - always worth watching and the chap that played the teacher was sufficiently creepy from first sight. The boys were sympathetic without being irritating child actors and the atmosphere was intimidating.It was emotional without being over the top, the relationship between the leads was wonderfully portrayed and I feel it was a valuable description of the horrific situation of collaboration.Not the best film I've ever seen but I definitely enjoyed it. And I'm not sure if you've noticed, and I don't like to bring it up, but Billy Crudup is a god among men.Watch it with an open mind.

[email protected] 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.