The title is the most authentically French thing about “Suite francaise,” a fusty but enjoyably old-fashioned WWII soap that, notwithstanding its Gallic locale, is otherwise characterized by a ...

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Remember that wartime romance from The Weinstein Company, starring Michelle Williams and Matthias Schoenaerts? Probably not; TWC took U.S. and other rights to Saul Dibb’s World War II drama, “Suite ...

As forbidden romances go, a love affair between a German officer and a French villager in Nazi-occupied France gets high marks on the 'verboten' scale. That's the centrepiece of Suite Francaise, with ...

This adaptation of Irène Némirovsky’s acclaimed bestseller about French folk collaborating with the Nazis is flabby, sugary – and passion-free Like a very solemn Stella Artois commercial, this is a ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Despite the millions of stories about World War II, new ones, some recently ...

There are other things to do with my day, but I must write this review of Suite Française before the film completely vanishes from my mind. Although this France-set, World War II-era romance is not ...

Reading Suite Française is inseparable from the knowledge of how it was written, and why it was unfinished. Nemirovsky, a Russian Jew who became a literary star in Paris after her family fled the 1917 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Until its publication in Paris in 2004, this superb panorama of French life in the wake of the catastrophic German victory of 1940 lay ...

Iffy scripting decisions can't thwart the romantic allure of this handsomely crafted, sincerely performed wartime weeper. In Blighty, where Entertainment One releases the pic on March 13, “Suite ...