FRENCH SATURDAY: EPIC DRAMAS 'LA PROMESSE DE L'AUBE' WITH PIERRE NINEY AS FAMOUS WRITER ROMAIN GARY AND WW1 STORY 'THE GUARDIANS' ON WOMEN IN THE GREAT WAR

  'LA PROMESSE DE L'AUBE'

PIERRE NINEY AS ROMAIN GARY

Gary won Goncourt under two different names

Oui, oui, we're having a French movie Saturday today! Opening in French cinemas this December is epic romance LA PROMESSE DE L'AUBE with Pierre Niney playing famous novelist Romain Gary and Charlotte Gainsbourg also starring.

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragicomedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.

   'THE GUARDIANS' TRAILER

WOMEN IN THE GREAT WAR

The movie aired last weekend at London Film Festival

Also opening on the very same day as the above mentioned saga on Romain Gary, December 6th over in France, is movingly epic First World War  drama THE GUARDIANS (Les Gardiennes) which follows the touching story of women that were left behind to work a family farm during the Great War while their men were dying for their country. While their men were guarding the country, the women were left to be the guardians of their homes and farms.