Favorite Discoveries 2024
ESN's Top 5 First-Time Views of the Year
Lacombe, Lucien
Louis Malle, 1974
I’m not sure there’s a more perfect depiction of the appeal of fascism and it’s seduction of young, rural men than Lacombe, Lucien. Even though this film is set in France in 1944, the titular seventeen year-old played by Pierre Blaise easily feels like he could have been a character plucked from my own boyhood experiences…