The Law (2014)
Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the French National Assembly, around a bill which would make "voluntary termination of pregnancy" legal. Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos (also in The Other Son): Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During these three days of violent debate Veil, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is spared nothing: political negotiations, solitude, sparring arguments, insults and violence to her family. In spite of all of this, Veil never wavers.
Director: Christian Faure
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Emmanuelle Devos as Simone Veil |
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Lionel Abelanski as Antoine Veil |
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Lorànt Deutsch as Dominique Levert |
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Laure Killing as Françoise Giroud |
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Flore Bonaventura as Diane Riestrof |
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Lannick Gautry as Rémy Bourdon |
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Aurélia Petit as Marceline Loridan-Ivens |
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Anne Girouard as Myriam, la documentaliste |
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Michel Jonasz as Gaston Defferre |
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Michaël Cohen as Jacques Chirac |
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Olivier Pagès as Jean Lecanuet |
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Alain Stern as Michel Poniatowski |
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Bernard Ménez as Eugène Claudius-Petit |
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Éric Naggar as Michel Debré |
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Émilie Caen as Marie-France Garaud |
| Directing | Christian Faure | Director |
| Writing | Fanny Burdino | Writer |
| Writing | Samuel Doux | Writer |
| Writing | Mazarine Pingeot | Writer |
| Editing | Aurique Delannoy | Editor |
| Camera | Jean-Pierre Hervé | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Eric Perron | Costume Design |
| Art | Vincent Deleforge | Production Design |
| Art | Quentin Prévost | Production Design |
| Production | David Kodsi | Producer |
