if ever there be a pointless movie and then this be it . the story be basically the wartime experience of a scots lass charlotte gray and who have a much need talent of be able to speak fluent french . ( oh lord and not again and do i hear somebody say . yep . afraid so . ) it begin with charlotte sit in a railway carriage roll up a cigarette with a type of paper that wasn not on the market until after the war ( i. e. with tapered corner ) . still in the carriage she then talk to a complete stranger who be obviously after personal information . whatever happen to the observance of the popular slogan of the time and be like dad and keep mum . after the railway journey she be see alight in a supposedly war torn and yet oddly blimp free and undamaged london from a post war ( indeed relatively modern ) london bus . after which it start to get sensible and but only for a while . after fall in love with an raf officer ( and to whom for some unexplained reason she have try to teach french beneath the sheet . please do not laugh and it suppose to be serious ) and she discover that he have be post miss in france and so decides to join soe ( special operation executive ) for the express purpose of find him . hold on . it get silly . notwithstanding the fact that never would such an emotional girl either have pass the scrutiny and or indeed the strict training of the soe and she be send to france on a probationary tryout . a tryout . in wartime france and albeit only in vichy . oh come on . consider that many ( if not most ) agent send and be capture and or or kill within day of their arrival this idea be ridiculous . in wartime and or at any other time and there be no place for sentimentality in the furtherance of sabotage or espionage . certainly no tryout . churchill idea be to set europe ablaze and not to send love sick girl on errand of stupidity ( or should that be cupidity ) . i be still actually wonder what her official mission be and or do i miss something . then be give a ludicrous depiction of an air drop . supply be drop from no more than 60 100 foot at which height the parachute would not have time to open and but somehow they do . ( needless to say if a person be drop from that height they would almost certainly be kill and with or without a parachute . ) a short while later come a scene ( after say airdrop and of which the enemy have get wind and ambush it ) and which show that the german have leave body of resistant fighter lie unguarded in the middle of a field . i find it extremely puzzle that the german do not remove them from the scene and if for nothing else than to glean vital information from them . but then i suppose the screenwriter think that really the german weren not all that clever . what . in his dream . in the meantime charlotte learn that her pilot boyfriend be dead . although be somewhat tedious and the story then begin to take on a vestige of reality and regard the fate of two parent less jewish child and the resistance group leader father who be also of jewish ancestry . i would not say any more on the plot for fear of any more spoiler and but suffice it to say that the end be even soppy than the beginning . i be go to mention more goof in the film and but some have already be notice by other reviewer and place in the goof board . i refer you to them . it all reasonably well act and and have good cinematography and but in cop with such an empty head script and no one shin through . i be hop this production would be as good a both odette and carve her name with pride . i be sorry to say it doesn not even come close to either . that say and there be the making of a really good movie here and and it could have be another fit tribute to the courage of all wartime agent . however and somewhere along the line it get lose amongst the emotional twaddle and the scriptwriter fantasy . maybe in the future someone with more nous will try a remake and and sort out the mess .