The Law (2014)

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.

Directing:
  • Christian Faure

Writing:
  • Fanny Burdino
  • Mazarine Pingeot
  • Samuel Doux

Stars:
Release Date: 2014-11-26
themoviedb icon 6.4/10
  • Country: FR
  • Language: Français
  • Runtime: 87
Emmanuelle Devos
Emmanuelle De...
Simone Veil
Bernard Ménez
Bernard Ménez
Eugène Claudius-Petit
Flore Bonaventura
Flore Bonaven...
Diane Riestrof
Michaël Cohen
Michaël Cohen
Jacques Chirac
Lionel Abelanski
Lionel Abelan...
Antoine Veil
Lorànt Deutsch
Lorànt Deutsc...
Dominique Levert
Laure Killing
Laure Killing
Françoise Giroud
Lannick Gautry
Lannick Gautr...
Rémy Bourdon
Aurélia Petit
Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne Girouard
Anne Girouard
Myriam, la documentaliste
Michel Jonasz
Michel Jonasz
Gaston Defferre
Olivier Pagès
Olivier Pagès
Jean Lecanuet
Alain Stern
Alain Stern
Michel Poniatowski
Éric Naggar
Éric Naggar
Michel Debré
Émilie Caen
Émilie Caen
Marie-France Garaud
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