The book itself is certainly not true - after his death the BBC found out that Rawicz had actually been released by the USSR and shipped to Iran. Another Pole, Witold Glinski, then came forward and said that he'd made the trip, but he was, according to someone who knew him, actually in school at the time.
However, a…

You just haven't earned it yet, Jorge

Surely he should call himself
The Notorious Big?

Ms. Adequate, I'm not dismissing the whole film because the ending bothers me - it's one of the best films of the year and I enjoyed it immensely - I'm just saying that that one scene's purpose seemed unclear and frustrating. That's not necessarily a bad thing, apart from the fact that while trying to puzzle this out…

Have you seen the documentary, Karatloz? How does Chabrol's version measure up in comparison to what Clouzot was planning/shooting?

Fair enough. I think the fact that I read more into it might have something to do with the fact that, at the time, I was researching and writing an article on Clouzot for my uni newspaper, which meant that I linked the film into the story of Clouzot's career myself anyway. I think I'd agree that it's quite laid-back…

I would have thought the real give-away that it's a dream is that Michael Caine's character is there to pick Cobb up from the airport. This would seem to be something that would only happen in Cobb's fantasy, as Caine's character apparently lives/teaches in Paris and presumably didn't know when/where Cobb was going to…

This is a great documentary
I saw this a while ago in the UK and then watched it again when it came on TV recently. I think Keith is underrating this - not only does it give a pretty good sense of where the film was going (although it's hard to see what the intended ending was), it also nicely parallels the plot of…