Allied is a 2016 war thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Steven Knight. It stars Brad Pitt as a Canadian intelligence officer and Marion Cotillard as a French Resistance fighter who fall in love while posing as a married couple. Jared Harris, Simon McBurney and Lizzy Caplan also star. Principal photography began in February 2016 in London, and continued in May 2016 in the Canary Islands, used to stand in for Morocco. The film premiered in Los Angeles on November 9, 2016, and was released in the United States on November 23, 2016.
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Allied is a 2016 war thriller film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Steven Knight. It stars Brad Pitt as a Canadian intelligence officer and Marion Cotillard as a French Resistance fighter who fall in love while posing as a married couple. Jared Harris, Simon McBurney and Lizzy Caplan also star. Principal photography began in February 2016 in London, and continued in May 2016 in the Canary Islands, used to stand in for Morocco. The film premiered in Los Angeles on November 9, 2016, and was released in the United States on November 23, 2016 by Paramount Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its costume design, cinematography, and musical score, but saw criticism for its screenplay and the lack of chemistry between the actors. It grossed USD 40. 1 million domestic and USD 119 million worldwide against an approximate USD 85–113 million budget, becoming regarded as a box office flop. At the 89th Academy Awards, it received a nomination for Best Costume Design. In 1942 during World War II, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot serving on intelligence duties, travels to Casablanca in Morocco to assassinate a German ambassador. He is partnered with a French resistance fighter named Marianne Beauséjour, who had escaped from France after her resistance group was compromised and killed. A year later in 1943, Max learns from the Special Operations Executive that Marianne is suspected of being a German spy, having adopted her identity after the real Marianne was killed in France, and that the German ambassador they assassinated was a dissident Hitler wanted dead.
Max is ordered to write down a piece of false intelligence at home, where Marianne can find it. If the information is picked up from intercepted German transmissions, Max must personally execute her, and if he is found to be an accomplice he will be hanged for high treason. Max asks Marianne to come with him to London and be his wife. The two get married, settle down in Hampstead, and have a baby girl named Anna, who is born during a bombing raid. Max and Marianne grow close, despite agreeing that in their line of work feelings can get people killed. She claims her feelings for Max are genuine, and claims that she was forced back into being a spy because German agents were threatening her country. She admits she is a spy and forwarded the message, which Max left in plain view, which left her unwilling to flee the country. Max takes the place of a Lysander pilot and flies to France to meet Delamare, who was being held at the local police station. He and the local resistance break into the town’s jail to alert the Germans, but the delay allows time for the French resistance to defeat the Germans. The next day, Max and the resistance manage to defeat them, and they both escape. The following evening, Max takes a place in a pub and demands she play the piano in a bid to prove his love for Marianne.
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