WOMEN AT WAR
NEW FRENCH TV SERIES
The French were relatively active last year in the historical genre, with Marie Antoinette and Diane de Poitiers and some other costume dramas, and they
are launching 2023 with WOMEN AT WAR (Les Combattantes) as the first series of that genre coming to us this year from France. The eight part historical drama actually already aired in France and the French speaking countries last Autumn, but the audience around the world will be able to watch it from January 19th, which is next Thursday, when it starts streaming over at Netflix! Tcheky Karyo, Tom Leeb, Yannick Choirat, Vincent Rottiers also star in the series beside the female leads mentioned below who play four women during World War I: a nun, a feminist nurse, a prostitute, and a widow turned factory boss. As usual Netflix did not deem it fit to issue posters or a trailer for a
foreign series, but I found you one with English subtitles below:
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| The series hits Netflix next week |
STORY IS SET IN SEPTEMBER 1914
For several weeks, the fighting has been raging. In a small village in the east of France, a few kilometers from the German zone, four women find themselves thrown into the heart of the horror: Marguerite (Audrey
Fleurot), a Parisian prostitute as mysterious as she is flamboyant who is
suspected of being a spy ; Caroline (Sofia Essaïdi), wife of Victor
Dewitt, owner of a car factory, went to the front. She sees herself
propelled to the head
of the family business, a colossal and
unprecedented challenge for a woman at the beginning of the century;
Agnès (Julie De Bona), mother superior of a convent requisitioned and
transformed into a military hospital. Overwhelmed 
by the influx of
wounded soldiers, Agnès is more tormented and questions her life choices; and
Suzanne (Camille Lou), a young feminist nurse on the run since an
abortion that went wrong... All their destinies intersect as German
troops advance, men leave for the front lines, and they are forced to
grapple with the devastating consequences of war at home.
For several weeks, the fighting has been raging. In a small village in the east of France, a few kilometers from the German zone, four women find themselves thrown into the heart of the horror: Marguerite (Audrey
Fleurot), a Parisian prostitute as mysterious as she is flamboyant who is
suspected of being a spy ; Caroline (Sofia Essaïdi), wife of Victor
Dewitt, owner of a car factory, went to the front. She sees herself
propelled to the head
of the family business, a colossal and
unprecedented challenge for a woman at the beginning of the century;
Agnès (Julie De Bona), mother superior of a convent requisitioned and
transformed into a military hospital. Overwhelmed 
by the influx of
wounded soldiers, Agnès is more tormented and questions her life choices; and
Suzanne (Camille Lou), a young feminist nurse on the run since an
abortion that went wrong... All their destinies intersect as German
troops advance, men leave for the front lines, and they are forced to
grapple with the devastating consequences of war at home.
I wish I liked French films or series...
ReplyDeleteThey are defo an acquired taste category.
DeleteI'm watching In Flander's Field, a Belgian series on the same subject, is very sad so I'll watch this one, but the premise sounds woke, it is in Netflix that only buys and produce garbage and the protagonists are the same trio of the dsigusting Le Bazar...
ReplyDeleteHer hairdo looks so hilarious in that poster that at first I thought it was a contemporary comedy LOL She looks like a comedian and her costumes too modern. I will probably download, though.
DeleteProbably not for me.
ReplyDeleteNo vampires in it.
DeleteWhat a cast of characters!
ReplyDeleteThe French do know how to create characters.
DeleteUnfortunately, I don't know the title, but maybe someday I will. Great entry!
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Poland!
Dziękuję!
DeleteI don't have Netflix but I liked Audrey Fleurot in 'Engrenages' so if the show makes its way to a terrestrial channel in the UK I'll give it a try.
ReplyDeleteIt probably won't if it is on Netflix, but you never know.
DeleteShe kind of looks like Amy Adams after a hard night of partying LOL. I'm not sure if this is one I'll watch, but I might play it in the background while I'm working some day.
ReplyDeleteShe looks like a not hot mess with that nest on her head.
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