A review of the recent film “Allied”
Brad Pitt plays French-speaking Canadian pilot Max Vatan and Marion Cotillard is the French resistance fighter Marianne Beauséjour who team up for an audacious mission in Vichy-controlled Casablanca in 1942. The action then moves to London and occupied France.
Apparently inspired loosely by actual events, this film – scripted by the British Steven Knight and directed by the American Robert Zemeckis – presents all the British characters as cardboard cut-outs and sadly it is often too slow and overall increasingly implausible with a weak ending.
Yet it looks really good: as well as the watchable two stars, the costumes and sets are authentic and clever special effects render the aircraft of the time in convincing form.