Title: The Guardians
Original Title: Les gardiennes
Year: 2017
Info
- Country: France Switzerland
- Length: 138 Minutes (2 hours 18 min)
- Genre: Drama
- Studios: Les Films du Worso Pathé
- Distributor: Wanda Films
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: August 17 2018
- United States: May 04 2018
Plot
The film 'The Guardians' is based upon the novel written by Ernest Perochon, and tells the story of those women left behind to move their country forward while the men went to fight in the war. In the France of 1915, in the middle of the Great War, a mother and her daughter are left alone in charge of the Paridier farm while the men of the family are fighting on the front. Without knowing if their relatives will return, the mother rescues Francine, a young orphan, to help them with the housework. They work from sunrise to sunset and their monotonous life in the countryside will have a chist of emotion with the arrival of the young woman who believes she has finally found a family.
The film is directed by Xavier Beauvois, awarded in Cannes for 'De dioses y hombres', and his protagonists are Nathalie Baye ('Catch me if you can'), Laura Smet ('Yves Saint Laurent') and the debutant Iris Bry.
Cast
Director:
Hortense Sandrail
Solange
Francine Riant
Georges Sandrail
Henri
Clovis
Constant Sandrail
Videos
July 19 2018
Photos
Trivia
Mother and daughter
Nathalie Baye and Laura Smet, who play mother and daughter Hortense and Solange, are mother and daughter in real life.
Premiere with tragedy
The movie starring Nathalie Baye and her real life daughter Laura Smet was released the very same day Johnny Halliday died. He was the ex husband of the first and the father of the second.
The farm
Director explains that the farm in the movie was in a very bad state when they found it, and they had to restore it. In the words of Xavier Beauvois, the owner "thought we were going to make it «in cardboard» but designer Yann Me?gard said it's usually cheaper to restore it «for real»."
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