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A love story set in WW1 France
An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and a grieving French woman, who puts her own life at risk by sheltering him from the authorities.
An Accidental Soldier
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Marie Bunel Dan Spielman Bryan Brown Julia Zemiro Christian Manon Craig Hyde-Smith Daniel Boothey Mickey Camilleri Dylan Caseris Nicholas Peduzzi Phillipe Tercier Antoine Germain Marius Rodari Ben Young Luke Esme Nick Maclaine Will O'Mahony Lee Sheppard Nancy de Lucia Stéphane Avril Nathaniel Kelly Lena Steiff Emilie Cocquerel Wayne Davies Jean Luc Marinai Imogen Castledine Bill McCluskey Matt Elverd Malcolm Kennard Show All…
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Alternative Titles
Az engedetlen katona, Żołnierz z przypadku, 意外的士兵
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Australia
14 Sep 2013
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A story what has been told many times, so this one is a little so so, not the best, but nevertheless suprisingly touching. Curious to the book!
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Watched as part of my January 2019 Challenge.
A film from Australia
"Do you think this is a love story? That's not what this is. It can't be that."
H.L. Mencken once said "love is like war: easy to begin, but very hard to stop". The truth is that, more often than not, both war and love take most people by surprise. They come unexpected, creep unto us sometimes in moments when we're not looking for them. It just happens, and we have to deal with it, one way or the other. That is part of the underlying theme in this Australian television film released in 2013.
An Accidental Soldier follows Harry (Dan Spielman), a shy and introverted baker that… -
Ugh, that was lovely. Despite the Frenchness and the wrong war, that movie was made entirely for me. I too would like to harbour and deflower and be adored by Dan Spielman. Oof. It was sooo beautifully filmed. I always forget how incredibly interesting his face is. And entirely without malevolence this time around. Bless.
I like how Rachel Ward has directed two films, and both those films star beautiful Australian men I have obsessed over. It's like she and I have the same taste in actors. It also doesn't hurt that I've had a crush on her for like yonks.
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An attempt to make a high brow movie for a low brow audience.
I'm pretty tired of these movies that rely on the audience reacting in a positive way to the fact that Him and Her don't speak the same language but oh look they can communicate anyway. This one treats the audience with extra special care, providing subtitles for such "difficult" French words as 'madame,' 'gendarme,' and 'merci' when those words are the complete sentence and every movement is so very deliberately directed just incase you can't work out for yourself what's going in the many moments when people aren't speaking.