Full Review: LES GARDIENNES (France/Switzerland 2017) ****

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Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.

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Xavier Beauvois (screenplay), Marie-Julie Maille (screenplay) | 2 more credits »

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Director Xavier Beauvois (director of DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX, 2010 last seen as an actor playing Vincent in Clare Denis’ LET THE SUNSHINE IN) returns with a World War 1 historical drama about women looking after the farms when the men are send out to fight during the great war.  It stars Nathalie Baye in a dramatic but controlled performance as Hortense, a strong willed woman and matriarch of the Pardier family who manages the family farm.   The film is…

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