The Law 2014
6.5 / 10
The Law
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.
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.
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... Antoine Veil
... Dominique Levert
... Françoise Giroud
... Diane Riestrof
... Rémy Bourdon
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Release Date:
Nov 26, 2014 (France)
Run Time:
1hr 27`
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French
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France
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Released
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... Simone Veil
... Antoine Veil
... Dominique Levert
... Françoise Giroud
... Diane Riestrof
... Rémy Bourdon
... Marceline Loridan-Ivens
... Myriam, la documentaliste
... Gaston Defferre
... Jacques Chirac
... Jean Lecanuet
... Michel Poniatowski
... Eugène Claudius-Petit
... Michel Debré
... Marie-France Garaud
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