.... which grabbed me within seconds the truck with the "Poules à Boches" painted on the front denoting girls who had had "biblical intercourse" with the wartime occupiers and were (head)shaved and humiliated when it all finished ... awesome real B&W historical footage
The main protagonist in the film a 35 year old woman is the mother of a child conceived with a German officer so she has to live in a different town in Brittany ; then meets an effete rich bourgeois Parisian PhD student and they click and get married. She treats her boy badly resenting him; but treats her husband very well; who turns out is a homosexual trying to normalize his ways to fit in with 1940s France ... Many other elements happen here GIs come into the picture they the couple get a job running a night-club for GI's and some kind of menage-à-trois might or might not happen
The son wants to know quite rightly who his father was and more to the point whether he is still of this world
The entire film is very poignant social history of a country trying to rise from its ashes and a study of the mores of the time. The acting from
Anaïs Demoustier and
Vincent Lacoste is excellent throughout. The title Le Temps D'Aimer A Time To Love not sure why they mistranslate titles for reasons unknown really covers what happens here; love and unlove in its many forms; some elements we expected to see answered others were but all in all there is an internal logic to this film; it is very touching and quite beautiful; and also I repeat a slice of social history in that country
Recommended viewing.
