Allied 2016

First we are immersed in an old and dusty occupied Casablanca. Max Vatan is a Canadian working for the RAF as a pilot and secretly he is a spy. He lands in gorgeous sand dunes and off he goes to town by prearrangement. Car and hotel room and fake wife and papers all await. The deluxe life of old colonial hotels has been carefully reconstituted for this part of the film as have been the sand dunes! Our director is meticulous! The costumes and hairdos and cars and sunglasses and shoes and music are all perfect.

The song J'attenderai plays often in this film. Beautiful in French: see Max raabe sing it in YouTube. I will wait! Indeed so will the audience. When Intelligence Officer Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) learns his wife (Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard) may be conspiring with the enemy, he has only 72 hours to prove her innocence and save his family before he must do the unthinkable.

Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris
Runtime: 2 hours, 4 minutes