La Loi (2014): Besetzung, Handlung & Streaming

Released in 2014, La Loi is a historie film directed by Christian Faure, running about 87 minutes.

What it’s about. 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.

Who’s in it. La Loi stars Emmanuelle Devos as Simone Veil, Lionel Abelanski as Antoine Veil, Lorànt Deutsch as Dominique Levert and Laure Killing as Françoise Giroud, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.4/10, La Loi has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In USA you can stream it on France Channel Amazon Channel. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch La Loi page.

If you liked it. Fans of La Loi tend to enjoy Schindlers Liste, Der Soldat James Ryan, Hacksaw Ridge - Die Entscheidung and Green Book - Eine besondere Freundschaft.