A war widow (Emmanuelle Béart, pouting with both lips) and her two children join a mass exodus out of Nazi-besieged Paris, leading to a prettily pictured pastoral idyll at an abandoned manor in the countryside, under the protective wing of an illiterate seventeen-year-old stranger with a suspiciously short haircut. The strafing by an enemy plane that separates them from the mass and unites them with the stranger is frighteningly staged, but the rest is less vivid: slow, sedate, and soporific. With Daniel Ulliol, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Clémence Meyer; directed by André Téchiné. (2003) — Duncan Shepherd
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