The Yard, London A French teenager and a German boy soldier are unselfconscious lovers in this idiosyncratic fable set in occupied France It's 1944, and teenagers Elodie and Otto are on opposite sides of the war. She is a 17-year-old in occupied France who was friends with the betrayed, executed son of a local Jewish family. He is a 15-year-old in a German uniform with blood on his hands and an admiration for "Mr Hitler" with his vision of a future "where everything's clean". You might imagine t...
This Beautiful Future review - exquisite portrait of young love in the heat of war
The Guardian - 4 May 2017 13:40
The Yard, London A French teenager and a German boy soldier are unselfconscious lovers in this idiosyncratic fable set in occupied France It's 1944, and teenagers Elodie and Otto are on opposite sides of the war. She is a 17-year-old in occupied France who was friends with the betrayed, executed son of a local Jewish family. He is a 15-year-old in a German uniform with blood on his hands and an admiration for "Mr Hitler" with his vision of a future "where everything's clean". You might imagine t...
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