The Law (2014)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2014-11-26
Runtime: 87 minutes
Director: Christian Faure
Top Cast
- Emmanuelle Devos as Simone Veil
- Lionel Abelanski as Antoine Veil
- Lorànt Deutsch as Dominique Levert
- Laure Killing as Françoise Giroud
- Flore Bonaventura as Diane Riestrof
- Lannick Gautry as Rémy Bourdon
- Aurélia Petit as Marceline Loridan-Ivens
- Anne Girouard as Myriam, la documentaliste
- Michel Jonasz as Gaston Defferre
- Michaël Cohen as Jacques Chirac
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