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Release Date: 2001 Cast: Michael FitzGerald, Michael Gambon, Cate Blanchett, Robert Hands, Abigail Cruttenden, Hugh Ross, John Pierce Jones, Rupert Penry-Jones, James Fleet, Billy Crudup
Categories: Movies, Film adaptation, Period piece, War film, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Political drama Charlotte Gray is a 2001 British-Australian-German feature film directed by Gillian Armstrong and Danny Boyle, based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks. It is set in Vichy France, during World War II and stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon and Rupert Penry-Jones.
The story is based on the exploits of SOE's female agents that worked with the French resistance within occupied France (Charlotte Gray is a composite of operatives such as Pearl Cornioley, Nancy Wake, Odette Sansom and Violette Szabo).
In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to take... MORE
Charlotte Gray is a 2001 British-Australian-German feature film directed by Gillian Armstrong and Danny Boyle, based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks. It is set in Vichy France, during World War II and stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon and Rupert Penry-Jones.
The story is based on the exploits of SOE's female agents that worked with the French resistance within occupied France (Charlotte Gray is a composite of operatives such as Pearl Cornioley, Nancy Wake, Odette Sansom and Violette Szabo).
In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to take a job as a medical receptionist for a Harley Street doctor. On the train she talks to a man who enters her compartment, where he "interviews" her and gives her his card with the date, time and address of a book launch on the back. Despite the war, social life in London is in full swing and her friends convince her to go. While there she soon meets Flight Lieutenant Peter Gregory, but is interrupted by the man from the train, who urges her to meet some people.
The temporary nature of life at the time is epitomized when she quickly loses her heart to Peter. They speak on the nature of war and LESS
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