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.
Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Lionel Abelanski, Lorànt Deutsch, Laure Killing, Flore Bonaventura, Lannick Gautry
Crew: Christian Faure (Director), Fanny Burdino (Writer), Samuel Doux (Writer), Mazarine Pingeot (Writer), Aurique Delannoy (Editor), Jean-Pierre Hervé (Director of Photography)
Country: France
Language: Français
Studio: La Région Île-de-France, K'Ien Productions, France Télévisions
Runtime: 87 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 26, 2014
IMDb: 4.6
