★★★★1/2 Hitchockian exercise of Truffaut, the man who watched too many movies, around a theater company during the Nazi occupation of France. The director of the company is Jewish and hides; his wife, a leading actress, has to take care of the production and his co-star is a member of the Resistance. That is, things are not easy for any of the three protagonists, and there is also a villain. But if you think this is a romantic melodrama in the midst of barbarism, you are wrong. It is a story about what is true and what is false, about representation and the happy deception (or not) to which we voluntarily submit when there is art. Great movie that makes the show form and substance, it has one of those endings that make anyone with a little blood in their veins smile. Truffaut here plays all the games at once and ends up winning.
