The Last Mitterrand

Becoming an unlikely socialist French President in 1981, Francois Mitterrand led France until shortly before his death in 1996.

This two hour French epic tells of the President's dying days, as he tells his political story to the crestfallen Antoine Moreau, his biographer.

Overwhelming lonely, yet content and verbose, the film allows the audience to delicately care for the ailing Mitteranrd, as he slowly succumbs to prostate cancer.

No doubt this film would have more meaning to someone with a greater knowledge of French politics than myself, but the film had enough going for it to keep your watching for it's 120 minute duration - not least of which was the red hot Judith, the love interest who nets a harried Moreau.

The confused Moreau confronts his Hero in Mitterand, challenging him about the detail of his days during the Vichy reign of France, and his complicity with the Nazi's.

I could easily see how someone could walk out this bored and unentertained, but I enjoyed the film not least for it's historical content.

For me, 4/5 crepes.