The Law

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.

Cast

Emmanuelle Devos Simone Veil Lionel Abelanski Antoine Veil Lorànt Deutsch Dominique Levert Laure Killing Françoise Giroud Flore Bonaventura Diane Riestrof Lannick Gautry Rémy Bourdon Aurélia Petit Marceline Loridan-Ivens Anne Girouard Myriam, la documentaliste Michel Jonasz Gaston Defferre Michaël Cohen Jacques Chirac Olivier Pagès Jean Lecanuet Alain Stern Michel Poniatowski

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