Suite Française (film)
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| Directed by | Saul Dibb |
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Suite française by Irène Némirovsky |
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| Music by | Rael Jones |
| Cinematography | Eduard Grau |
| Edited by | Chris Dickens |
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107 minutes |
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| Budget | €15 million ($20 million) |
| Box office | $15.4 million |
Suite Française is a 2015 British-French-Belgian romantic World War II drama film directed by Saul Dibb and co-written with Matt Charman. It is based on part of Irène Némirovsky's 2004 novel of the same name. The film depicts the second part of the novel, Dolce. The film stars Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, Lambert Wilson and Margot Robbie. It centres on a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the early years of the German occupation of France. Suite Française was filmed on location in France and Belgium. It was released theatrically in the UK on 13 March 2015 and in the US on 10 October 2016 through Lifetime.
In Nazi-occupied France, Lucille Angellier and her domineering mother-in-law await news of her husband. A regiment of German soldiers arrives, and promptly moves into the homes of the villagers. Lucille tries to ignore Bruno, the German commander coopting her house, but he soon infatuates her.
On 9 November 2006, Michael Fleming from Variety reported that the rights to Irène Némirovsky's novel Suite Française (written during the Nazi occupation of France but published posthumously in 2004) had been acquired by Universal Pictures.Ronald Harwood, who wrote the script for The Pianist, was set to write the screenplay, with Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall producing the film. The following year, TF1 Droits Audiovisuels acquired the rights to the novel from publisher Éditions Denoël. The novel was then adapted for the screen by Saul Dibb and Matt Charman, with Dibb directing. The film was given a budget of €15 million ($20 million), which Mick Brown from The Daily Telegraph noted was "big by European, if not American, standards".
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