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The Guardians (Les gardiennes) [Sub: Eng]
Driving by their will of defending their country during the great war, men of the farm, leave their farm and go to the borders, leaving the farm for women to run it, women do well at first, but with the coming of harvest, the mother finds difficulty in running things, so she asks for help, so the mayor recommends a kind orphan girl, Francin Riant, who wins their heart, because of her honest and loyalty.
12 November 1978, Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France
August 26, 2018
Set in a quiet corner of France, The Guardians is a study of women, often mothers, daughters, and sisters, on the home front during World War I as they combat the everyday and the uncertainty often brought with conflict.
August 21, 2018
The Guardians is a subtle, beautifully made and quietly feminist work about the fortitude of women during wartime.
May 08, 2018
Imagine devoting several years, as Mr. Beauvois did, to making a reflective, bucolic feature that is organized around the themes of community and evolving culture. It's all too subtle for words, but perfect for moving pictures.
August 20, 2018
[A] spare, painterly first world war drama...
September 12, 2018
The Guardians is an icy tale of injustice, war, love, despair, and adaptability, which unfolds serenely yet assuredly with attentive period detail.
August 20, 2018
A pleasing Sunday-afternoon wallow - but not a transcendent one.
May 18, 2018
Presents the dailiness of farm life through its seasons with an unhurried grace.
August 24, 2018
Almost too self-consciously beautiful, The Guardians creates a picturesque trope of rural France during World War I.
May 04, 2018
Like a series of Monet paintings come to life, the historical drama The Guardians luxuriates in lush, widescreen images of the French countryside.
May 14, 2018
The performances are extraordinary, as they often are in Beauvois' films, with Baye a study in quiet suffering and Bry wonderfully enigmatic - seemingly simple, but hinting at a soul capable of expansion and adaptation.
June 20, 2018
Like the cinematic equivalent of slow food, "The Guardians" is a rich, simmering cassoulet of a film, one that asks viewers to adjust their metabolisms accordingly.
May 09, 2018
Elegantly made and quietly emotional, a family story filled with characters whose lives we sink into, feeling the hope, the sadness, the sorrow and the joy right along with those on the screen.

