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Strayed

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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.
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Critics Consensus

Understated but compelling wartime drama.

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Desson Thomson Washington Post 07/02/2004
A picture-book French film that's pretty and trite, rather than edgy and moving. Go to Full Review
Stephen Hunter Washington Post 07/02/2004
Has the strange clarity of a fable. Go to Full Review
Melinda Ennis Atlanta Journal-Constitution 07/01/2004
B+
Ulliel is brilliant as a lost boy who has grown mad in a world filled with madness. And Beart's portrayal is haunting. Go to Full Review
Steve Erickson Gay City News 03/08/2018
However prosaic the conclusion seems, the film's vision of wide-open space-both physical and mental-cannot be extinguished. Go to Full Review
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com 06/10/2009
B
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. Go to Full Review
Anton Bitel Film4 06/15/2007
Strayed proves to be as lost and elusive as its fugitive characters. Go to Full Review
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12/27/2020 Compelling drama with a luminous Beart and Ulliel filled with charisma that ultimately feels somewhat contrived and predictable to the end See more 12/12/2012 could not understand language See more 06/07/2012 Its slow pace makes me bored. See more 01/19/2012 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. See more 06/05/2011 Great WWII civilian movie taking place in France! See more 04/25/2011 i like Odile's children, especially the little girl :) a good play on the contrast between good and evil. See more Read all reviews
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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