Storyline
Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.
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Marvin Beyster, Guillaume Canet, Laetitia Casta, Anthony Decadi, Éric Naggar, François Morel, Gérard Jugnot, Kad Merad, Jean Texier, Clément Godefroy, Théophile Baquet, Louis Dussol, Harold Werner, Nathan Parent, Ilona Bachelier, Thomas Goldberg, Marie Bunel, Grégory Gatignol, Thierry Nenez, Thierry Liagre, Anne Gaydier, Vincent Bowen, Philippe Jeancoux, Nicolas Clauzel, Jean-Michel Coulon, Elise Le Stume, Sébastien Saint-Martin, Olivier Papot, Baptiste Arsac, Benjamin Auzance, Paul Belin, Kelvyn Boubon, Maxime Boyer, Nicolas Brunet, Joseph Chadelat, Axel Combes, Benoît Combes, Florentin Coumoul, Tanguy De Sousa, William Dechambre, Mike Delattre, Louis Fraise, Thomas Giordanengro, Clément Guillec, Stéphane Lacroix, Roman Maka, Hugo Miramon, Gaëtan Nigon, Florian Pelissier, Gabin Pesenti, Quentin Poulet, Emmanuel Protet, Jason Rebelo, Ryan Rinck, Robinson Rivière, Joris Robutti, Fabian Rozat, Adam Satre Hamon, Nathanaël Sigaud, Nicolas Soule, Maxime Tailleux, Gaëtan Troupenat, Valentin Anouilh, Jonathan Badeuil, Lucas Bonamy, Antoine Boudon, Kevin Bruchet, Antoine Chades, Louis Chazelle, Quentin Charisoli, Loris Dejax, Flavien Delmas, Gauthier Delmas, Maxime Diot, Thomas Dufour, Rémy Godefroy, Thibaud Lonjon, Bastien Majskner, Maxime Maka, Tanguy Martin, Enzo Mezzacasa, Mathieu Mille, Joachim Payen, Baptistin Peghaire, Gaëtan Plantin, Julien Raymons, Axel Saby, Tristan Seguy, Vincent Tailleux, Adrien Trouvadis, Corentin Viannenc, Elvin Virgille, Eden Mazzoni, Adriana Jaksetic, Mattéo Chastan, Vincent Ferreira
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Reviews
60
NPR
War of the Buttons deftly folds France's unsavory collusions into a rather more rousing tale of resistance. I don't doubt that some of these heroics happened. But the way they're framed conveniently takes the edge off saying sorry.
60
Though it's handled with little subtlety, the way the atmosphere of suspicion in Vichy France filters down to the kids is a smart slant on the material.
50
To be fair, War of the Buttons is a film with a modest agenda. It does not attempt to provide a complete or even vaguely realistic depiction of the rural French resistance in the endgame to World War II. Instead, it provides a fable.
50
War of the Buttons means well. But ultimately there's only marginally more edge to this treatment of World War II than there is to the average episode of "Hogan's Heroes."
42
The use of a real war to give added emotional heft to this already potentially manipulative story make this film an act of callous calculation behind the beautiful shots of the French countryside.
