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Strayed

Play trailer Poster for Strayed Released May 16, 2003 1h 35m Drama War Play Trailer Watchlist
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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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Understated but compelling wartime drama.

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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 Full Review Stephen Hunter Washington Post Has the strange clarity of a fable. Jul 2, 2004 Full Review Melinda Ennis Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ulliel is brilliant as a lost boy who has grown mad in a world filled with madness. And Beart's portrayal is haunting. Rated: B+ Jul 1, 2004 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Anton Bitel Film4 Strayed proves to be as lost and elusive as its fugitive characters. Jun 15, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member 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 Full Review Audience Member could not understand language Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Its slow pace makes me bored. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member Great WWII civilian movie taking place in France! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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André Téchiné

Director

Emmanuelle Béart

Odile

Gaspard Ulliel

Yvan

Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

Philippe

Clémence Meyer

Cathy

Jean Fornerod

Georges

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Strayed

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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