(THREE and 1/2 STARS)
The story of Simone Veil implies a rich journey through what have been the decades since the Second World War, which also implies an enormous amount of cultural and political changes unthinkable centuries before. Veil, survivor of Auschwitz, it was a huge political figure who is remembered above all for having achieved the legal abortion in France.
The film, which covers his private and public life, honors him above all for the precise interpretation of elsa
Zylberstein, perfect in the role of a woman who carries painful marks but does not make resentment a driving force, but rather moves within the idea of understanding and establishing what is just. Which does not imply that it does not have contradictions: in that sense, the film manages to make the character not a piece of consecrated marble but rather the portrait of a human being with a firm will capable of building a life based on service to others.
It is true, the film also falls into some common places of the genre, but it is never boring and its point is well made.
