Phantom

Le Dernier Métro (The last Metro)

(1980)

Occupied Paris, Nazis and collaborators out the wazoo, and Mme Marion Steiner (Catherine Deneuve), a film star in her youth ('cause yeah, she's a pretty haggard-looking old lady by this time), is trying to keep her impresario husband's Montmartre theater alive, Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennent), for reasons made obvious by his surname, having fled.

Except that he's really in the cellar, pulling managerial and directorial strings via Marion, less because he doesn't trust his replacements than because he has started to go stir crazy. Meanwhile, for no more evident cause than that they're in a movie together, Marion and actor Bernard Granger (Gérard Depardieu, and you forget how handsome he was) fall in love.

It sometimes feels a tad by-the-numbers, but hey, pretty people directed by Truffaut, why not?