Strayed

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Strayed

Released May 16, 2003

1h 35m

Drama

War

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In Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s, a widowed school teacher, Odile (Emmanuelle Béart), races to get out of Paris with her two children, Philippe (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Cathy (Clémence Meyer). Destruction and mayhem in the city streets force the family to flee into the forest, where they meet a 17-year-old boy, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), who leads them to a safe house. Once there, Odile and Yvan explore their sexual feelings for each other, even as the Nazis pursue them.

Critics Consensus

Understated but compelling wartime drama.

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Empire Magazine

Rated: 3/5

Dec 30, 2006

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

A picture-book French film that's pretty and trite, rather than edgy and moving.

Jul 2, 2004

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Stephen Hunter

Washington Post

Has the strange clarity of a fable.

Jul 2, 2004

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Steve Erickson

Gay City News

However prosaic the conclusion seems, the film's vision of wide-open space-both physical and mental-cannot be extinguished.

Mar 8, 2018

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Andre Techine, maestro of the French New Wave directors, tells a seductively simple story of survival set on the outskirts of German occupied Paris in June of 1940.

Rated: B

Jun 10, 2009

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Anton Bitel

Film4

Strayed proves to be as lost and elusive as its fugitive characters.

Jun 15, 2007

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Compelling drama with a luminous Beart and Ulliel filled with charisma that ultimately feels somewhat contrived and predictable to the end

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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could not understand language

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

Its slow pace makes me bored.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

I dont know a hoot about French history. Nevertheless I enjoyed this movie a lot. Although it's a story of a Parisian family running away from war, this is not exactly a period war movie. it deals with the struggles of a family to survive, and the relation between a widowed mother and a young stranger.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

Great WWII civilian movie taking place in France!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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i like Odile's children, especially the little girl :) a good play on the contrast between good and evil.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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André Téchiné

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Emmanuelle Béart

Odile

Gaspard Ulliel

Yvan

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

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Clémence Meyer

Cathy

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Synopsis

In Nazi-occupied France in the 1940s, a widowed school teacher, Odile (Emmanuelle Béart), races to get out of Paris with her two children, Philippe (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) and Cathy (Clémence Meyer). Destruction and mayhem in the city streets force the family to flee into the forest, where they meet a 17-year-old boy, Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), who leads them to a safe house. Once there, Odile and Yvan explore their sexual feelings for each other, even as the Nazis pursue them.

Director: André Téchiné
Screenwriter: Gilles Perrault, Gilles Taurand, André Téchiné
Distributor: Mars Distribution
Production Co: Canal+
Genre: Drama, War
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): May 16, 2003, Original
Release Date (DVD): Nov 23, 2004
Box Office (Gross USA): $482.4K
Runtime: 1h 35m
Sound Mix: DTS