The read
It runs a compact 1h 27m.
Synopsis
Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the French National Assembly, around a bill which would make "voluntary termination of pregnancy" legal. Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos (also in The Other Son): Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During these three days of violent debate Veil, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is spared nothing: political negotiations, solitude, sparring arguments, insults and violence to her family. In spite of all of this, Veil never wavers.
Ratings
17 audience votes
Key crew
- Christian FaureDirector
- Mazarine PingeotWriter
- Fanny BurdinoWriter
- Samuel DouxWriter
Cast
- Emmanuelle DevosSimone Veil
- Lionel AbelanskiAntoine Veil
- Lorànt DeutschDominique Levert
- Laure KillingFrançoise Giroud
- Flore BonaventuraDiane Riestrof
- Lannick GautryRémy Bourdon
- Aurélia PetitMarceline Loridan-Ivens
- Anne GirouardMyriam, la documentaliste
- Michel JonaszGaston Defferre
- Michaël CohenJacques Chirac
- Olivier PagèsJean Lecanuet
- Alain SternMichel Poniatowski