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Article: Critic's choice; `A Self-Made Hero' works as comedy, drama, political critique.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 3, 1998
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With 16 audience favorites unreeling in repeat performances this week, the finale of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival brings back the cream of the crop in concentrated form.
An outstanding example is the acid French satire "A Self-Made Hero," concerning a milquetoast who sat out the Nazi occupation but presented himself as a Resistance fighter. As the great pretender polishes his bogus reputation, he finds everyone eager to believe.
The film works as comedy and drama; as a character study of a hollow man, and a political critique of French cowardice and ...
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