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Strayed (Les Egares)
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Strayed (Les Egares)

Director: - Andre Techine
Producer: - Jean-Pierre Ramsay Levi
Cast: - Emmanuelle Beart, Gaspard Ulliel


Genre: -
Historical Drama
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June 1940 and German troops are advancing on Paris. Odille, a widowed teacher, succumbs to the widespread panic and with her two children, joins the exodus from the city. After fifty kilometres, a German plane attacks, decimating the helpless refugees.

Seventeen year old Yvan, a shaven headed youth, appears from nowhere and leads them away from the carnage. Odille must decide whether to follow him into the forest or return to the bloody road.

Yvan finds an abandoned house and breaks in, the children are transfixed, reluctantly Odille follows. Here, with no radio or clocks, cut off from the outside world and struggling to survive, the four characters will slowly come to know each other and move inexorably beyond their limits.

Odille does not trust this wild, illiterate youth, who lies constantly but takes care of them. Yvan a feral presence, reveling in the chaos that threatens to engulf them, provoking fear, longing, dread and desire.

Surrounded by untamed nature, in the hot glow of summer, Odille feels her control starting to slip. Then, Yvan is arrested, for escaping from jail before the war, will Odille see him again or is this an impossible love?

Runtime:- 95 minutes

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