Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This adaptation of a newly discovered manuscript that was turned into a novel in 2004 is set during the German occupation of France in the 1940's. German soldiers were billeted in the homes of the locals in the village of Bussy.Lucille Angellier (Michelle Williams) lives with her wealthy and domineering mother in law, Madame Angellier (Kristin Scott Thomas.) Each sunday they would stealthily collect rent from the tenant farmers on their land. Lucille's husband is away fighting, thought now to be a prisoner of war.The Angellier household is joined by handsome, cultured German officer, Bruno (Matthias Schoenaerts) a musician before he became a soldier.Both are attracted to each other in a village where the war has complicated things. Madame Angellier remains a patriot having little to do with the Germans but still sees an opportunity to make money. Some of the women sleep with the German soldiers in a village that was deprived of men. Some of the wealthy people in the village like the Viscount manage to carry on regardless by keeping their chickens, rooms and power. Others suffer especially as some of the villagers settle scores by gossiping to the Nazis by writing poisonous letters. Lucille feels hell bent to help out one of her tenant family who is being harassed by a Nazi officer, willing to take risks.This is a handsomely mounted film well acted by Scott Thomas and Williams. The story is not deep, Bruno is not regarded as a token good Nazi, he is willing to overlook the actions of what some of his fellow officers may have done in the past but his feelings for Lucille seems genuine.

During the early years of Nazi occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), a French villager, and Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts), a German soldier. Suite Francaise is based upon the very popular best seller and honestly i don't know about the book but this film is fantastic the acting is superb and i loved the story and how Lucile and Bruno started to fell in love day by day another thing i liked was Bruno himself Schoenaerts gave a terrific performance as a good German. The rest of the cast also did great Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Riley and Margot Robbie even Lambert Wilson did great the only bad thing about the whole movie was that some characters didn't got the screen time that they need it to become even more interesting for example Margot's character should have been more in the film in the cast she's 3rd but she is in the film barely for around 5 or 6 minutes top even Kristin Scott Thomas should have been more in the film in my opinion but still one hell of a great film with a huge impact and that's for sure and that is why i'll give Suite Francaise a 8/10.

During war time sacrifices have to be made. Some have to do with our private space, some with our personal space too. All dig into our personal life and depending on the person invading (pun somewhat intended) it will lead to different results. So we may be inclined to paint every Nazi as a bad person or just a demon/devil without any depth or sympathy for that person.This movie does try to delve deeper into it and tell a bit of a different story. War is hard on everybody and depending on how your character is developed you'll make decisions that can be qualified as good or bad, be it in hindsight or just judging at the moment. The drama part does work and there are no easy solutions if any at all. Not an easy but an uncomfortable viewing experience which is exactly what it was meant to be

I don't give many films a ten and even when I do, I manage to find a fault or two. This film is about as close to cinematic perfection as it gets. It's a tender love story, a heart rending drama, a well done war picture, a powerful suspense film, an accurate historical rendering. The casting is perfect. The acting is magnificent. The photography is creative. It's neither too short nor too long. The atmosphere is enveloping. Even the damn titles are great! If I wrote a one word review it would be WOW! Nor does it fall into the trap of making all the Germans bad guys and all the French heroes, in fact it's quite the opposite in places. The story is many things, But essentially it documents the impossible and irresolvable personal conflicts that war produces. Okay...one minor error I see somebody else has caught and which I wondered about myself as I watched. The film is set in June of 1940, immediately after the fall of France. Neither Charles DeGaulle nor the Free French had yet emerged. But that minor flaw is outweighed by the sheer magnificence and power of this production. One helluva movie!