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Films
Klawans, Stuart | September 29, 1997 issue

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This article discusses the motion picture "A Self Made Hero," directed by Jacques Audiard. The film is based on a novel by Jean-Francois Deniau. The film by Audiard offers a version of recent history that is rambunctious, cynical and utterly indispensable to anyone who wants to learn how to pull a military career out of a suitcase of lingerie. When the moral of a story is so much at odds with its raconteur's little pleasures, the audience may wonder at the meaning of "real" a word that becomes all the more tantalizing when the audience discovers that this storyteller admits to fraud.

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SELF-Made Hero, A (Film); AUDIARD, Jacques; MOTION pictures; WAR films; MOTION pictures & war; DENIAU, Jean-Francois
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