Overview
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.
Cast
- Emmanuelle Devos as Simone Veil
- Lionel Abelanski as Antoine Veil
- Lorànt Deutsch as Dominique Levert
- Laure Killing as Françoise Giroud
- Flore Bonaventura as Diane Riestrof
- Lannick Gautry as Rémy Bourdon
- Aurélia Petit as Marceline Loridan-Ivens
- Anne Girouard as Myriam, la documentaliste
- Michel Jonasz as Gaston Defferre
- Michaël Cohen as Jacques Chirac