IMDb
6.6 /10
111 votes

History · TV Movie · 2014 · 1h 27min
La Loi
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.
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La Région Île-de-FranceK'Ien Productions
France TélévisionsAvailable in United States (data from JustWatch via TMDB · click → opens in provider)
IMDb
6.6 /10
111 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
The tomato isn't ripe
Metacritic took the day off
TMDB
6.4 /10
17 votes
Letterboxd
6.8 /10
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Weighted average
6.6/10