War of the Buttons
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  • Starring: Gérard Jugnot, Guillaume Canet, Ilona Bachelier, Jean Texier, Kad Merad, Laetitia Casta
  • Summary: Set in occupied WWII France, War of the Buttons tells the tale of pre-teen rebel Lebrac and the "war" he leads between two rival kid gangs from neighboring villages. Once Lebrac falls for Violette, a young Jewish girl who is new in town and in danger of being exposed by the Nazis, the children are faced with putting their own conflicts aside to protect her and confront the very real war happening around them. (The Weinstein Company)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 14
  3. Negative: 4 out of 14
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    Oct 19, 2012
    75
    Moving without being melodramatic, War of the Buttons is a tale of the worst -- and the best -- that people of all ages are capable of.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    Oct 12, 2012
    60
    Though it's handled with little subtlety, the way the atmosphere of suspicion in Vichy France filters down to the kids is a smart slant on the material.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jon Frosch
    Oct 9, 2012
    30
    Of course, everyone in the film - aside from one or two conspicuous villains - turns out to be a resistant, making an otherwise harmlessly corny movie something slightly more bothersome: a revisionist fantasy of French heroism.

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