The director of such films as My Dinner with Andre and Au Revoir les Enfants, Louis Malle coaxes from his provocative film, Lacombe, Lucien, what was absent from the others: an enigma of a primary character that remains inscrutable and hollow until the epilogue of the last scene revealing that this character is to be executed by a tribunal of the French Resistance. This is Lucien Lacombe, who has taken to rattling off his last name first in keeping with the bureaucratic procedures of which that is the ugliest, most noxious sign. Having grown up on a farmstead of the French countryside, Lucien exhibits all the obvious traits of a…