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Suite Francaise review: what is this film playing at, when it comes to Jews in attics?

The end is so sentimental and so Hollywood you'd be far better off reading the original Irène Némirovsky novel

14 March 2015

9:00 AM

14 March 2015

9:00 AM

Suite Française

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Suite Française is being billed as a second world war romance about ‘forbidden love’ and, in this regard, it is handsome, solid, well played and probably fine, if you haven’t read Irène Némirovsky’s novel, but if you have? Then you may have been hoping and praying for something deeper, something more special.

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