Strayed

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Summary: Hiding in Plain View
Review:
Set during the German occupation of France during WW II, "Strayed" (Les Egares) is a quiet, subtle film directed by the estimable Andre Techine and brimming over with valid psychological insight and emotional awareness.
"Strayed" tells the story of a widow (Emmanuelle Beart) fleeing Paris with her children: she's prim, proper, a school teacher used to a particular middle-class sense of decorum and restraint, who comes upon an unsettling, "natural" young man (Gaspard Ulliel) who lives by his wits and exhibits an intense knowledge and intuition of how to survive.
It is 1940, the Germans have taken over Paris, France is in disarray, yet these scared and wary people bond together: each one learning things from the other that don't come naturally to either of them. They find a safe place in an empty villa, once occupied by a Jewish couple and therein all four set up a home.
In many ways then, "Strayed" is about the Universal conflict between the Natural and the Ordered Life and to Techine's credit, one does not win out over the other. Instead, these characters find a place in their hearts willing to compromise, accept their differences and find a kind of love motivated by desperation and survival.


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Summary: IT WAS AMAZING!!
Review: I loved it...yes, it was a little hard to understand and follow only cuz it was in French and the first time i saw it was without subtitles, but I think it was pretty decent. The actors were really good for the most part...the kids were the best, the little girl and Greg, and Gaspard was just hot for his part, O LALA!!! Well anyways I definatly recommend this for other people that like romance or war movies...but mainly romance!!!