The idyllic countryside of France turns into nightmare as it becomes occupied by German army during the World War 2. Crowds of refugees flee the capital of Paris and find a shelter in small town named Bussy, where this romantic drama takes place. German army resides there too, soldiers and officers are divided into the households. And bonds are being created between enemies, f.e. when a young married French woman finds
something like a soul-mate in German officer living in her villa. Sadly, no dramatic war background can save a movie with shallow and bad screenplay. And it was for me, what happened in this movie. I knew nothing about it before seeing it and I was really surprised, when I found out it is based on the book. Whole time while watching I was thinking... yes, someone had a nice idea about a movie. War movie, from the point of view of rich civilian, not being exactly in the middle of the war. Fear of bombarding was believable and whole situation kind of interesting. But then it started to swim out – lack of any plan. Like someone did not know how to fill the main plot with actual dialogs. Everything felt just shallow and that applied to the majority of the motives, even if they had potential, they were somehow put without any depth, being it motive of class differences (rich/poor) or loneliness in the middle of war time. Vast majority of the characters were just unbelievable, starting with the main male protagonist of German lieutenant. Only exception for me was the evil" mother-in-law (Kristin Scott Thomas).
Review of Suite Française
