2011 French Film Festival - Lucie Aubrac

The last french film in this year's film feast, and what an impactful film it was! My only regret was that this was the only film I caught in this film fest! I must catch more of such films in the years to come. No Hollywood movies can be compared to such films, where sets are simple and the appeal is entirely based on the strong storyline and an even stronger acting skills of the actors. 

Lyons, March, 1943. Raymond Samuel (Aubrac is his alias in the underground) and Lucie, his wife, are active in the resistance movement against the Nazi occupying forces. Story has it that Raymond is arrested in Caluire, at the house of a doctor named Dugoujon, along with Jean Moulin. Lucie's passionate love for her husband drives her to risk it all and try everything to snatch her husband from the clutches of the Gestapo. Her efforts contain a mixture of violence and romance and seem to spring from the fertile imagination of a novelist. However, the film is based on the true story of Lucie Aubrac, 'Ils partiront dans l'ivresse", published by Les Editions du Seuil.

There is a quote where Lucie was teaching a class of girls on ancient history. "Today's news shall be tomorrow's history. We learn about history to know who we are today."