Directed by:
Gilles Paquet-BrennerCinematography:
Pascal RidaoComposer:
Max RichterCast:
Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Frot, Natasha Mashkevich, Gisèle Casadesus (more)VOD (1)
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The movie tells the story of an American journalist (Kristin Scott Thomas) on the brink of making big life decisions regarding her marriage and her unborn child. What starts off as research for an article about the Vel'd'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up as a journey towards self-discovery as she stumbles upon a terrible secret and discovers the heartbreaking story of a Jewish family forced out of their home, a home that is now her own. (StudioCanal UK)
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Every war story is literally horrible. But it’s worse when the main roles are played by kids. And that’s precisely the case with this movie, which amazingly combines a story from the war with a story from the present. The audience actually doesn’t know until the last 25 minutes how the current investigation will end and they also won’t make a sound while that story from the war is being told. But the moment the war story ends, the movie starts to lose steam. But until then, I admit that it is a great war drama which I will never forget. Even though it’s horrible, I am glad that movies like this are made. In not too long, there will not be anybody left who could tell those stories, only the movies themselves. After the movie, I felt horribly sad and I hope that I personally don’t ever encounter anything like it.
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