Director Saul Dibb. Screenplay Saul Dibb & Matt Charman
Based on the bestselling novel “Suite Française” by Irene Némirovsky
Producers Andrea Cornwell, Michael Kuhn, Xavier Marchand, Romain Bremond
Financiers: eOne / TF1 / The Weinstein Company / BBC Films / Scope Productions
Starring Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ruth Wilson, Sam Riley, Harriet Walter, with Margot Robbie and Lambert Wilson
International Release March 2015
"Rewardingly complex, and disarmingly compassionate....an impressive sense of balance that belies the tumultuous birth of Némirovsky’s handwritten manuscripts, which heartbreakingly accompany the closing credits" - Mark Kermode, The Observer
"Suite Française ticks all the right boxes as a classy literary adaptation" - Screen International
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - "This nuanced, compelling film ... a handsome and intelligent adaptation... Kristin Scott Thomas is exceptional." - Time Out
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - "A Powerful Masterpiece" - Irish Independent
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - "Exceptional casting… the central romance rivets…Williams, Schoenarts and filmmaker Dibb deliver a love story that will make you swoon" - Charles Gant, Heat
"But it’s “Dolce” and events in the outline of “Captivity” that form the heart of this excellent film: the touching relationship between an unhappy young French woman and the German officer billeted with her family, with all its ambiguous, troubling echoes of collaboration. Némirovsky was a superb storyteller, and the film has done her justice." - Caroline Moorhead, The Guardian
"Both Kristin Scott Thomas and Michelle Williams are absolutely wonderful... [It] gives you an incredible sense of what it was like under occupation." - BBC Radio4 Front Row
"Williams is an actor of powerful fragility; she is more than a match for Ms Scott Thomas’s terrific turn as Madame Angellier ... a romance with a tough enough core to ensure that the haunting spirit of [Némirovsky's] astonishing creation survives." - The Economist
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - "Enthralling and moving war romance" - Mark Adams, Sunday Mirror
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - New Internationalist
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - "Gloriously enjoyable. A superbly acted war romance.... Love triangles rarely come so sharp and painful." - Glamour
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - "Breathtakingly moving" Woman's Weekly
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ -Tim Evans, Skymovies
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - "Astonishingly vivid evocation of its trouble era, and the actors certainly rise to the occasion… Williams is utterly convincing… a gripping slice of history and an intoxicating love story." - Radio Times
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ - Grazia
"Michelle Williams and Kristin Scott Thomas give us an acting masterclass… a tense watch, brimming with moral dilemmas and grey areas." - Metro
"A seriously captivating film… suspense and romance set against a devastating backdrop… will have your heart racing." - Cosmoplitan
"Beautifully portrays the confusion, pain and hope when lives are thrown into total disarray… taut, emotional… a love story of epic proportions." - Stylist
"I just wanted to let you know how pleased are the whole family about the film. Both the children as well as the grandchildren thought this was a really good work. Well done!" - Nicolas Dauplé, grandson of Irene Némirovsky