Deborah Ross

A true story that never feels true: Resistance reviewed

If I had to mime a review of this film – about Marcel Marceau's heroic wartime rescue of Jewish orphans – I’d probably mime nodding off on the sofa

Jesse Eisenberg flounders as Marcel Marceau in Resistance. Image: IFC Films
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