Award Winning Independent Cinema

The latest film from Xavier Beauvois (Gods and Men) is a powerful drama depicting a mother and daughter’s struggles to keep the family farm together during the Great War. This richly compassionate, fiercely acted and beautifully shot period drama is about the second conflict, the battle of wills on the home front, as its characters struggle to maintain life at home. A way of life, with its Hardyesque seasonal rhythms of sowing and reaping, is minutely, sumptuously depicted. But all the time in the background – in the letters home, in the muttered hints of the grim-faced men on leave and their shell-shocked dreams – is the horror of war.

Dir. Xavier Beauvois, France, 2018, 135 mins, subtitled. Cast. Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry.