The Law (La loi) (2014)

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6.6	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Christian Faure

Starring (View all)

Emmanuelle Devos
Simone Veil

Lorànt Deutsch
Dominique Le Vert

Flore Bonaventura
Diane Riestrof

Lannick Gautry
Rémy Bourdon

Lionel Abelanski
Antoine Veil

Aurélia Petit
Marceline Loridan

Anne Girouard
Myriam, documentaliste de L'Express

Stéphan Wojtowicz
Rédacteur en chef de L'Express

Written by

Mazarine Pingeot
scenario

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Description: 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, V ... (more)

Release date: 26 November 2014

Tags: Drama (1), Politics (1), Abortion (1), France (1), 1970s (1), Based On True Story (1)

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