Storyline

In Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s, a widowed school teacher, Odile (Emmanuelle Béart), races to get out of Paris with her two children, Philippe (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Cathy (Clémence Meyer). Destruction and mayhem in the city streets force the family to flee into the forest, where they meet a 17-year-old boy, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), who leads them to a safe house. Once there, Odile and Yvan explore their sexual feelings for each other, even as the Nazis pursue them.

Plot Keywords

widow, schoolteacher, teen boy, nazi, son, daughter, brooding, disheartening, touching, moving, occupied france, forest, french countryside, paris, world war ii, holocaust, romance, nazi occupation, on the run, sexual awakening, escape, pursuit, rescue, forbidden love, 1940s

Short Review

However prosaic the conclusion seems, the film's vision of wide-open space-both physical and mental-cannot be extinguished.

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