Brad Pitt plays a husband left out in the cold in ‘Allied’

In Robert Zemeckis’ new film, the French actress plays Marianne Beausejour, a French resistance fighter in Casablanca during World War II, who is paired with a Canadian agent who has been parachuted in to carry out a very risky assassination. The director added: “When I questioned [Knight] about it, he said, well that’s the world of the SOE and spies”.

A kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh.

It is just coincidental that Jen was also there, particularly in flagship BBC programme to talk about her upcoming movie, Office Christmas Party.

“He apparently feels he did nothing wrong and probably figured it would look worse if they avoided each other”, according to our source. “But at the same time, I really wanted to support him and the process that I went through, I know how hard it is”. But within a year, British intelligence is questioning Marianne’s loyalties, and asking Max to test her by letting her see false information, to find out whether she passes it to the enemy.

Maybe I’m petty, but I couldn’t get past the premise.

Pitt has kept a low profile since his split from Angelina Jolie in September after an incident in which the 52-year-old actor was reported to have lost his temper in front of one or more of their children.

There’s a poignancy to the underlying “Allied” theme of marital trust, and questions of whether anyone can ever completely know a spouse, and whether love is more important than country. They just ain’t very sexy – even when playfully discussing how risky it is for spies to fall in love during a mission. They are happy. In between bombing raids, their life is full of love. We laughed, because you need to get it out.

They get married, move into a nice house in London, and have a baby. Profanity notwithstanding, Allied is an old-fashioned romantic thriller of the sort nobody makes anymore, the kind where glamorous men and women pose as people they’re not, and then discover that they’ve become the people they’ve been pretending to be, all while wondering about each other’s true identities.

Allied lurches from a ludicrous special ops thriller to a ludicrous romance to a ludicrous cat-and-mouse mystery.

Cotillard is endlessly inventive and a joy to watch, but in the first half of the film her Marianne totes a machine gun, in the second half a pacifier.

Focusing too hard on the central lovers in Steven Knight’s screenplay wastes great opportunity around them.

At its heart, “Allied”, which opens Wednesday, is an intimate portrait of a couple, but it’s also a big war film and is filled with huge set pieces, action and intrigue. It has no vitality.

Marion Cotillard and Brad Pitt have played the main characters in the Robert Zemeckis” “Allied’.

IDENTICAL twins are soon to be seen on the big screen after being chosen to star in a movie alongside Hollywood superstar Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. Distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Running time: 124 min.