La Loi (2014)
The Law
Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the French National Assembly, around a bill which would make "voluntary termination of pregnancy" legal. Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos (also in The Other Son): Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During these three days of violent debate Veil, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is spared nothing: political negotiations, solitude, sparring arguments, insults and violence to her family. In spite of all of this, Veil never wavers.
Casting arrow_drop_down
Emmanuelle Devos
as Simone Veil
as Simone Veil
Lionel Abelanski
as Antoine Veil
as Antoine Veil
Lorànt Deutsch
as Dominique Levert
as Dominique Levert
Laure Killing
as Françoise Giroud
as Françoise Giroud
Flore Bonaventura
as Diane Riestrof
as Diane Riestrof
Lannick Gautry
as Rémy Bourdon
as Rémy Bourdon
Aurélia Petit
as Marceline Loridan-Ivens
as Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Anne Girouard
as Myriam, la documentaliste
as Myriam, la documentaliste
Michel Jonasz
as Gaston Defferre
as Gaston Defferre
Michaël Cohen
as Jacques Chirac
as Jacques Chirac
Olivier Pagès
as Jean Lecanuet
as Jean Lecanuet
Alain Stern
as Michel Poniatowski
as Michel Poniatowski
Bernard Ménez
as Eugène Claudius-Petit
as Eugène Claudius-Petit
Éric Naggar
as Michel Debré
as Michel Debré
Émilie Caen
as Marie-France Garaud
as Marie-France Garaud
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Christian Faure
Director
Director
Fanny Burdino
Writer
Writer
Quentin Prévost
Production Design
Production Design
Vincent Deleforge
Production Design
Production Design
Eric Perron
Costume Design
Costume Design
Samuel Doux
Writer
Writer
Jean-Pierre Hervé
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Mazarine Pingeot
Writer
Writer
Aurique Delannoy
Editor
Editor
David Kodsi
Producer
Producer
