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- And although the ending wraps things up in a quick and tidy way that’s jarring, given everything that preceded it, “The Innocents” still represents a welcome change: a war movie by women, about women.
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Nov 11, 2016 · Titled The Innocents, it is the haunting rendition of a real-life story, adapted from the diaries of French Red Cross doctor, Madeleine Pauliac – renamed Mathilde Beaulieu in the film, and played by a captivating Lou de Laage – who was drafted to Warsaw in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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In Warsaw, December 1945, a nun known as Sister Teresa approaches a young French female student doctor, Mathilde Beaulieu, serving with an army unit. She says there are sick women in need and is not satisfied with a referral to the Polish Red Cross. Beaulieu decides to go at night to the nun's convent, where one woman has given birth.
Jul 1, 2016 · This intense, gripping and demanding film is about women struggling together against incredible odds to hold onto faith in God and humanity; about good and evil, means and ends, themes
Jun 26, 2016 · French director Anne Fontaine is known for her daring portraits of passionate women in films like “ Coco Before Chanel ” and “Gemma Bovary.”. So the setting of her next film, “The Innocent s,” may come as a bit of a surprise: at the height of the Second World War, an atheist French Red Cross doctor (Lou de Laâge) is called in ...
Jun 30, 2016 · Mathilde, serenely acted by Ms. de Laâge, is a beautiful, preternaturally wise and compassionate young woman: a modern heroine undaunted by the horrors of the world. When a band of soldiers...
The role of woman in the war society has a special attention this time, from two different perspectives: the new free women that can decide her own destiny and find its best metaphor in the French Marianne; the second one, the centenary image of the catholic sacred women, the virgin.
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