Lou de Laâge

Agata Buzek

Agata Kulesza

Vincent Macaigne

Joanna Kulig

Eliza Rycembel

Katarzyna Dąbrowska

Anna Próchniak

Helena Sujecka

Mira Maludzińska

Dorota Kuduk

Klara Bielawka

Pascal Elso

Thomas Coumans

Leon Latan-Paszek

Joanna Fertacz

Zacharjasz Muszyński

Mariusz Jakus

Tomasz Sobczak

Sasza Reznikow

Denys Ivenov

Paweł Janyst

Aliaksandr Malchanau

Otar Saralidze

Artur Janusiak

Helena Norowicz

Karolina Zieleń

Ewa Trzewicarz

Małgorzata Paprocka

Marta Mazurek

Iwona Dombek-Rybczyńska

Dorota Zielińska

Aldona Jankowska

Barbara Sienkiewicz

Magdalena Gnatowska

Danuta Borsuk

Ewa Pałuska

Katarzyna Skolimowska

Maria Szadkowska

Hanna Wolicka

Anna Korzeniecka

Irena Telesz-Burczyk

Wiktoria Adamczyk

Franciszek Maziuk

Kryspin Kozłowski

Radosław Kowieszko

Fabian Zajączkowski

Julian Plewa

Konrad Dzierzkiewicz

Maciek Pawełczyk

Weronika Humaj

Karol Paluch

Kacper Leśniak

Marek Szukiełojc

Delfina Wilkońska

Andrzej Rydel

Jarosław Golec

Anna Różalska

Piotr Michalski

Michał Kacprzycki

Francis Wargnier

Annette Dutertre

Anne Fontaine

Kinga Babczyńska

Sophie Denize

Caroline Champetier

Olivier Thys

Anna Nobel

Virginie Seguin

Nicolas Altmayer

Marcin Rodak

Katarzyna Lewińska

Grzegorz Rzepecki

Jarosław Wierzbicki

Stéphane Bourgoin

Janusz Bykowski

Boguslaw Piotrowski

Joanna Macha

Anna Pabisiak

Guillaume Pondard

Sabrina B. Karine

Weronika Migoń

Mateusz Kuźniak

Pascal Bonitzer

Martin Roux

Alice Vial

Cyrille Richard

Eric Altmayer

Philippe Carcassonne

Dagmara Bończyk

Anna Zenowicz

Thibault Mattei

Philippe Maynial

Pascale Béraud

Eliza Oczkowska-Edelman

Isabelle Grellat

Grégoire Hetzel

Bogusław Bielański

Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska

Olivier Mauvezin

Jean-Pierre Laforce

Beata Rzeźniczek

Patricia Colombat

Maciej A. Maciejewski

Drama

History

Les Innocentes

France 2 Cinéma

Mars Films

SCOPE Pictures

France 2

Aeroplan Film

Mandarin Cinéma

Belgium

France

Poland

Français

Polski

The Innocents

Reno

**When the house of peace was disturbed!**

From the director Anne Fontaine. Like any of her works, this is another top class women oriented film. But it was partially based on the incredible true story. Partial means, no one knows what was the actual event. The director and her writers inspired by the diary the French doctor who worked for Red Cross in Poland at the end of the World War II, who wrote down her experience on it. So, with the small-small facts the story was built on for the film. Well done job by the cast and crew.

Whenever you hear the word/abbreviation 'WWII', it always bound with nazi Germans. Since this tale takes place just after the war, when the Soviet took over the Poland from them, it is set to reveal one of the extremely hidden secrets. Just imagine how secret it is, like you have read many books and have seen many films regarding the WWII, but you have never heard about this, until now. It is a heart rending tale, but the thing is everything's about the aftermath, how they handled their state of condition.

Mathilde, the French doctor is fetched by a nun from the nearby convent is shocked when she reached there to see most of them are in the final stage of their pregnancy. They were sexually abused by the Soviet soldiers, but now she as to keep it quiet as requested by the mother superior. She's being an atheist and to whom she's treating, the believers, is exactly the opposite kind. But not just her, the nuns as well put aside their differences to overcome their situation.

> ❝For us nuns, the end of the war does not mean the end of fear.❞

It's right on the coldest winter, does not tell about the original violence, but there's still a few incidents about the army atrocities, how they treated innocent nuns, even the Red Cross members. But remember nothing was the actual depiction. It would have been even better if it was a documentary film. Doing some research and telling us the tale, reading exactly as what was written in the diary. But the film was not bad, except the scene to scene, event to event it was very slow to move, except right on the point.

The story has a twist, but it was not like very powerful. It depends on how you would consider it. Because for me, I felt it was too cruel, hard to take on. The story about church people means, you would expect a gentle kind. Or even in such situation, as in this film, to react as much as possibly generously as what they're known for. But in the first place, it was no ones fault. They all fighting for the same reason, especially keeping the outside world in mind, each one reacted differently. So it is understandable, but not all the acts were respectable.

As the director said in her interview, this is a period film, but pretty much the same in the contemporary world where war is on. The violence against the innocent women. So it is a debatable topic. And if it was directed by some male filmmaker, he might have risked with the violences in the flashback scenes to bring more depth in the narration. The present film is kind of compromises on that, but still not easy to watch everything it shows. Particularly for the families. Great performances by all. One of the best films on this theme and of the year. The film is not to be ignored. Despite not about the war, but just like 'Under Sandet', about the following event.

_8/10_

**_When the soldiers of the Red Army are just as bad as the German occupiers_**

Seven months after the end of the European theater of WW2, a nun from a convent in Poland seeks the aid of a French Red Cross worker, who’s helping French survivors of the concentration camps (Lou de Laâge). It turns out that some Russian soldiers paid a barbaric visit to the convent when they were taking over the territory months earlier. 

“The Innocents” (2016) is based on the true story of Madeleine Pauliac when she was working as a doctor in Poland, renamed Mathilde Beaulieu for the movie (Lou). It has a similar milieu to “Black Narcissus” and “Agnes of God,” except that it’s rooted in a real-life account. It’s not as good the former IMHO, but it’s superior to the later.

You could call this a WW2 drama and it works as a realistic period piece. I’m glad the scriptwriters added the relationship of the Hebrew doctor with the protagonist, which works up both historical and human interest amidst the glum proceedings. Lou de Laâge is one of the highlights. She’s a pleasure to behold and her lips are exquisite.

The film runs 1 hour, 55 minutes, and was shot in northeastern Poland at Morag, Krosno and Orneta.

GRADE: B

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