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The Guardians (Les gardiennes) [Sub: Eng]
Running the farm is not an easy mission for women, as during the Great War, the farm men have to leave to defend their country, leaving the farm for women to run, who do not manage to run it by themselves, so the mother asks for help, so the mayor recommends her a kind orphan girl, Francin Riant, who wins their hearts.
15 November 1983, Paris, France
12 November 1978, Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France
6 July 1948, Mainneville, Eure, Upper Normandy, France
August 24, 2018
Almost too self-consciously beautiful, The Guardians creates a picturesque trope of rural France during World War I.May 18, 2018
Presents the dailiness of farm life through its seasons with an unhurried grace.May 04, 2018
Like a series of Monet paintings come to life, the historical drama The Guardians luxuriates in lush, widescreen images of the French countryside.August 21, 2018
The Guardians is a subtle, beautifully made and quietly feminist work about the fortitude of women during wartime.September 12, 2018
The Guardians is an icy tale of injustice, war, love, despair, and adaptability, which unfolds serenely yet assuredly with attentive period detail.June 20, 2018
Like the cinematic equivalent of slow food, "The Guardians" is a rich, simmering cassoulet of a film, one that asks viewers to adjust their metabolisms accordingly.May 14, 2018
The performances are extraordinary, as they often are in Beauvois' films, with Baye a study in quiet suffering and Bry wonderfully enigmatic - seemingly simple, but hinting at a soul capable of expansion and adaptation.August 26, 2018
Set in a quiet corner of France, The Guardians is a study of women, often mothers, daughters, and sisters, on the home front during World War I as they combat the everyday and the uncertainty often brought with conflict.August 20, 2018
[A] spare, painterly first world war drama...May 08, 2018
Imagine devoting several years, as Mr. Beauvois did, to making a reflective, bucolic feature that is organized around the themes of community and evolving culture. It's all too subtle for words, but perfect for moving pictures.August 20, 2018
A pleasing Sunday-afternoon wallow - but not a transcendent one.May 09, 2018
Elegantly made and quietly emotional, a family story filled with characters whose lives we sink into, feeling the hope, the sadness, the sorrow and the joy right along with those on the screen.