This kinda falls a bit flat - the three leading women are kept apart way too often and the film never really does a great job of selling how important their work is - it's just sorta assumed as spies helping the french underground, we'll know the importance - we never really see a lot of individual missions or tight squeezes or tense moments. It's one of the reasons why history needs to be rejiggled a bit for narrative purposes - if your three most important characters hardly ever met, bring them together anyway, or at least look like they're showing some common purpose. It's not great at building the bits of research into a compelling overall narrative. Still, the three lead performances are reasonably strong, there's some decent sequences and it works okay - but it does feel like there's a couple of much better movies that could come from this topic which this movie never quite is.
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