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Monsieur Batignole

Name: Monsieur Batignole
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2002
Duration: 100 min
Cast: Gérard Jugnot, Jules Sitruk, Michèle Garcia, Jean-Paul Rouve, Alexia Portal

Taste attributes: comedydramawarhistoricaltried & testedunsavouryrealisticlineargrittybig & variedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiphuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardyunderdog triumphs

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Boxlist takeA grounded comedy-drama that is unsavoury, moving and sweeping. Best if you like real life over fantasy.

Taste details

Pace: balanced · Originality: tried and tested · Tone: dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: gritty · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score

Quality rating

7.0 /10

TMDB · 168 votes

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Emotional punch: Emotive / stirring, just how this profile likes it
Linearity: Linear / logical, just how this profile likes it

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Intricacy: Balanced intricacy, where this profile leans smart / intricate
Originality: Tried & tested, where this profile leans fresh / original

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Synopsis

In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.

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