Strayed

Strayed (2003)

Les égarés

Fleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house, but despite the fact that the family quickly comes to be depending much on his cunning and survival abilities, their cohabitation proves uneasy.

Date of release
2003-08-20
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (80)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama, Romance, War
Director
André Téchiné

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Paris
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Strayed is a 2003 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Emmanuelle Béart and Gaspard Ulliel. The plot follows a widowed mother, who escaping occupied Paris with her two young children during World War II, finds shelter with an itinerant teenager at an abandoned rural house. The film is an adaptation of Gilles Perrault's novel The Boy With Grey Eyes.

Production

Strayed (Les Égarés), Téchiné's fifteenth film, was a commissioned project. Jean Ramsay Levi of FIT productions had the idea to make a film from Gilles Perrault's short novel The Boy With Grey Eyes (Le Garçon aux yeux gris) published in 2001. It is Téchiné's first literary adaptation. The script was written by Téchiné with his longtime collaborator Gilles Taurand.

There are some notable differences between the film and the novel. In the book Odile belongs to the upper class while in the movie she is a school teacher. The father is dead, unlike in the novel. Téchiné and Taurand made an emphasis in the period in the house and made its owners Jewish musicians. In Perrault's narration the soldiers are threatening brutes and Odile is rescued to be raped by Yvan.

Filming took place in the Tarn department, including in the villages of Sorèze and Arfons, as well as in the Lacaune Mountains near Murat-sur-Vèbre.

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