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Les égarés

  • 2003
  • Unrated
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
3.5K
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Emmanuelle Béart and Gaspard Ulliel in Les égarés (2003)
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Emmanuelle Béart stars as a widowed schoolteacher who flees German-occupied Paris with her children. A teenage boy comes to their rescue by leading them into the forest -- their best shot at... Read allEmmanuelle Béart stars as a widowed schoolteacher who flees German-occupied Paris with her children. A teenage boy comes to their rescue by leading them into the forest -- their best shot at survival.Emmanuelle Béart stars as a widowed schoolteacher who flees German-occupied Paris with her children. A teenage boy comes to their rescue by leading them into the forest -- their best shot at survival.

  • Director
    • André Téchiné
  • Writers
    • Gilles Perrault
    • Gilles Taurand
    • André Téchiné
  • Stars
    • Emmanuelle Béart
    • Gaspard Ulliel
    • Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.5/10
    3.5K
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    • Director
      • André Téchiné
    • Writers
      • Gilles Perrault
      • Gilles Taurand
      • André Téchiné
    • Stars
      • Emmanuelle Béart
      • Gaspard Ulliel
      • Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
    • 28User reviews
    • 55Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 5 nominations total

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    Emmanuelle Béart
    Emmanuelle Béart
    • Odile
    Gaspard Ulliel
    Gaspard Ulliel
    • Jean Delgas alias Yvan
    Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
    Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
    • Philippe
    Clémence Meyer
    • Cathy
    Samuel Labarthe
    Samuel Labarthe
    • Robert
    Jean Fornerod
    • Georges
    Eric Kreikenmayer
    • Le gradé
    Nicholas Mead
    Nicholas Mead
    • Le soldat blessé
    Mike Davies
    Mike Davies
    • Le jeune gendarme
    • (as Robert Eliott)
    Nigel Hollidge
    • Le réfugié
    • Director
      • André Téchiné
    • Writers
      • Gilles Perrault
      • Gilles Taurand
      • André Téchiné
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    User reviews28

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    7claudio_carvalho

    Beautiful Drama of War

    In 1940, while escaping from Paris with her two children, the widowed schoolteacher Odile (Emmanuelle Béart) has her car bombed by the German airplanes and is helped by the mysterious Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel). They move into the forest and the find a huge house, where they decide to lodge themselves. Although being only seventeen years old, Yvan arises the desire in Odile in times of war.

    "Les Égarés" is a beautiful drama of war. The story is very simple, but easy to understand the situation of the ordinary French people when Paris was invaded by the Germans in World War II before the shameful agreement of the governments of these two countries. I love Emmanuelle Béart, one of the best French actresses ever, and her love scene is one of the most sensual and erotic I have ever seen. Amazing how the director André Téchiné was able to shoot so intense eroticism in the dark. I was hypnotized by the beauty of this great actress, but the story is really attractive, original and good. My vote is seven.

    Title (Brazil): "Anjo da Guerra" ("Angel of War")
    8Tony43

    Captivating characterizations

    Andre Techini's "Strayed," or perhaps more accurately, "the lost" or "displaced" people, has a simple premise. A school teacher, whose husband was killed in the early days of the war, takes her two children and flees Paris in the face of the Nazi advance on the City of Lights. In the countryside, as they are stuck in a massive traffic jam made up of refugees, they are strafed by German fighters in a harrowing scene that reminds you a little of the bombardment of the advancing troops in "All Quiet on the Western Front."

    They lose their car and all their possessions, but are rescued by a strange, resourceful teenager who becomes their guide, companion, but in some ways, their charge, as they try to hide out -- from the war itself.

    This is the kind of film that most American audiences wouldn't like, because after that strafing run, not another shot is fired, not another blow struck. The story that plays out is about the main characters getting to know, tolerate and even grow found of one another, but then finding themselves faced with some uncomfortable choices.

    Gregoire LaPrince-Ringuet is very good as the 13-year-old boy of the family who might have been elevated to the man of the house status, had not the mysterious teenager arrived on the scene. But rather than show resentment, he winds up doing everything possible to become the older boy's friend.

    Gaspard Ulliel is quite effective as the older boy, a sort of domesticated wild child. But the film belongs to Emmanuelle Beart, who plays the mother.

    Beart's character is fascinating. She has lost her husband, her home, everything she has except her two kids. She is on the road with them, dead broke, dead tired and close to despairing. But of course, she is a tower of strength, right, magnificently holding her family together in the face of personal disaster and global chaos.

    Actually, no. Beart's character is depicted as a woman clearly out of her depth who can barely keep herself together in the face of the problems confronting her. She's like a ticking time bomb, ready to completely fall apart at any moment. The only thing that holds her together is her rigid, school teacher training that allows her to continue to run her fugitive family as if she is maintaining order in a classroom during an unplanned fire drill.

    And it works. Beart comes off neither as the typical weak, frightened woman Hollywood movies presented so often in the 50s, nor the kick butt superwoman that we see so often in American films today. Beart is so frightened during the air attack that she pees in her pants. She is so in need of structure to take her mind off things that she starts cleaning the windows of the abandoned home they later hide in.

    But she is also together enough to handle a couple of French soldiers who drift by, easily dealing with them when her self-appointed teenage protector is so unsettled by these two potential rapists he can't even stay in the house with them.

    Beart underplays her role, which features spartan dialogue to begin with. But there is a lot going on for her and you see it all playing out in her eyes, and behind her eyes as well.

    It is another great performance from this French star and the film would be worth seeing just to study her acting, even if she were not one of the screen's great beauties.
    noralee

    Is It Realism or Metaphor?

    "Strayed (Les Égarés)" can't quite decide if it's a grittily realistic World War II drama or one of those let's-set-up-a-plausibly-extreme-situation-and-see-how-humans-react games.

    The believable set-up of a widow and two children amidst frightened refugees fleeing Paris in 1940 is reinforced with intercuts of black-and-white newsreel-type footage. The second act in an isolated farmhouse with a helpful teenage boy suspiciously strains credulity, but the acting, particularly by Emmanuelle Béart, convinces us to accept the exploration of humanity.

    But the arrival of retreating soldiers just confuses the bifurcation as it overlays both genres such that we just don't understand the characters' motivations in the climax, whether as realism or metaphor.

    As in writer/director André Téchiné's "Alice and Martin," there's a final coda that adds new information on a character to change your perceptions. The novel it is based on does not appear to be available in English to see what he changed from the source material.

    It is also possible Téchiné is making points about French political history, of which I was only able to pick up a few of the references as I know little about Vichy France, such as the house they are squatting in belongs to a Jewish musician who clearly will not be returning and the son's example of cultured singing is a German lieder.

    The cinematography by Agnès Godard is beautiful.
    7BeneCumb

    Above average, but not so special

    Plots dealing with human relations taking place in closed environments are not easy to show on screen - even if the background is challenging and characters have to develop. In spite of catchy and versatile beginning, the events later, especially mansion-related ones, seem protracted at times, although there is more dynamism than statics. The romantic link is not evolving sufficiently, and it's climax is somewhat peculiar.

    Luckily, all major performances are good, including the children who provide realistic approaches, not difficult to achieve sometimes... But when the credits appeared, I had to admit that I had expected more, since it was a French film, and the French are usually vibrant and spirited, but the overall atmosphere was more like a Dutch or Scandinavian one. Or were the war-time Frenchmen all so depressed and torpid?
    8Mengedegna

    Not Téchiné's greatest, but still Téchiné

    Even when he's not in top form, Téchiné makes movies that tell you more per frame than just about anyone around. In this case, he's using a screenplay that is just a little too glib, with a closing plot twist well beneath his league. But his handling of young actors is, as always, impeccable, and his ability to convey the confusion and uncertainty of life as it is lived, moment to moment, remains unsurpassed. The opening scenes of ordinary families fleeing Paris and being strafed on the open road by the Luftwaffe are masterful, haunting and, alas, still and always timely. And you get several of what you always come back to Téchiné for: unforgettable portraits of wholly unique and credible human beings.

    The film has been poohpoohed in France and as a result may never make into a proper U.S. release. Compared to a lot of what does get hurled out into the art-house market here, "Les Egarés" is a towering masterpiece and, for all its manifest imperfections, needs to be seen by serious moviegoers everywhere.

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    • Trivia
      Was a commissioned project. Jean Ramsay Levi of FIT productions had the idea to make a film from Gilles Perrault's short novel "The Boy With Grey Eyes" ("Le Garçon aux yeux gris") published in 2001.
    • Crazy credits
      The end credits contain a disclaimer that the film is unrelated to the 1983 Goncourt Prize-winning novel of the same name by Frédérick Tristan.
    • Connections
      Featured in Cinemania: I anodos kai i ptosi tou Nazismou (2008)
    • Soundtracks
      Zum ziele fuehrt dich diese Bahn
      from Die Zauberfloete

      Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Sung by Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

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    • Release date
      • August 20, 2003 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • Official site (France)
      • Wellspring (United States)
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Le garçon aux yeux gris
    • Filming locations
      • Midi-Pyrénées, France
    • Production companies
      • FIT Productions
      • Spice Factory
      • France 2 Cinéma
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $482,757
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $19,531
      • May 16, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,184,020
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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