The First World War was in full swing. All French men were conscripted into the army, leaving women and children to defend their homeland. The mother [Expand All]
The First World War was in full swing. All French men were conscripted into the army, leaving women and children to defend their homeland. The mother of the family estate invited the orphan Faxian Ni to help with the farming affairs. Diligent and capable, she was deeply loved by everyone. However, as the men returned from the battlefield one after another, all kinds of love and hate arose, bringing an undercurrent to the peace of the manor. Faxian Ni was also driven out of the manor... Xavier Bois, who won the Grand Prix of the Jury at Cannes for "Between Man and God" (2010), depicted the rural scenes of France with poetic lenses, so beautiful that it reminded people of Terence Malick's "A Day in Heaven" (1978), and the final scene was like a tribute to Kubrick's World War II classic "The Glorious Road" (1957).[Collapse]
