a terrific and fast pace screwball like comic strip or drama or farce set against france 1939 implosion . play with wide eyed and straight face intensity by a talented cast and chockablock with action and satire and social commentary and authentic period detail and from slick brillantined hairdo and marcel hairdo to a fleet of citroen traction and a rollicking soundtrack and brief but credible impersonation of charles de gaulle and marshal petain . it simply some of the best entertainment recently show on screen and devoid of presumption and message . if movie be train ( and there be a creative recreation of a trip on a steam driven train that work despite there be no steam locomotive an expensive prop and no doubt ) this would be a tgv .