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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.

Date: 11/26/2014
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Lionel Abelanski, Lorànt Deutsch, Laure Killing, Flore Bonaventura, Lannick Gautry, Aurélia Petit, Anne Girouard, Michel Jonasz, Michaël Cohen, Olivier Pagès, Alain Stern, Bernard Ménez, Éric Naggar, Émilie Caen

Emmanuelle Devos as Simone Veil in The Law Emmanuelle Devos

Lionel Abelanski as Antoine Veil in The Law Lionel Abelanski

Lorànt Deutsch as Dominique Levert in The Law Lorànt Deutsch

Laure Killing as Françoise Giroud in The Law Laure Killing

Flore Bonaventura as Diane Riestrof in The Law Flore Bonaventura

Lannick Gautry as Rémy Bourdon in The Law Lannick Gautry

Aurélia Petit as Marceline Loridan-Ivens in The Law Aurélia Petit

Anne Girouard as Myriam, la documentaliste in The Law Anne Girouard

Michel Jonasz as Gaston Defferre in The Law Michel Jonasz

Michaël Cohen as Jacques Chirac in The Law Michaël Cohen

Olivier Pagès as Jean Lecanuet in The Law Olivier Pagès

Alain Stern as Michel Poniatowski in The Law Alain Stern

Bernard Ménez as Eugène Claudius-Petit in The Law Bernard Ménez

Éric Naggar as Michel Debré in The Law Éric Naggar

Émilie Caen as Marie-France Garaud in The Law Émilie Caen