FANNY'S JOURNEY is based on a true story about children who escaped from Nazi-occupied France to safety in neutral Switzerland during World War II. After Fanny's father is arrested for being Jewish, her mother sends her and two younger sisters to a boarding school in a still-neutral French zone.
The film ends with a shot of the real Fanny, who lives in Israel, and an epilogue to her story. FANNY'S JOURNEY is a polished, inspiring true story drama well worth seeing, as a remarkable example of the bravery and resourcefulness of children.
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Fanny, a 12-year-old girl, stays in a hidden home far from her parents. She takes care of her two younger sisters until she is forced to flee in a rush, becoming the head of a group of eight children heading across occupied France.
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Fanny's Journey (original title: Le Voyage de Fanny) is a 2016 French-Belgian children's war drama film co-written and directed by Lola Doillon. The film is inspired by an autobiographical book by Fanny Ben Ami.
Film Review: ‘Fanny’s Journey’
A group of Jewish youngsters flees Nazi-occupied France in this fact-inspired WWII drama, the third feature from director Lola Doillon.
A group of Jewish youngsters flees Nazi-occupied France in the inspired-by-fact WWII drama “Fanny’s Journey,” the third feature from director Lola Doillon (“In Your Hands,” “Just About Love”). The film is a handsome, compelling period piece that deftly portrays events through the eyes of its young protagonists. Nevertheless, despite committed performances from the small fry and one of spirited conviction from Cecile de France as the resourceful school mistress trying to spirit them to Switzerland, the end result comes off rather like the equivalent of old-fashioned, young adult fiction; everything really bad happens off-screen. Moreover, a surfeit of forced lyricism undermines the tale’s natural poignancy, signaling that Jewish festival slots and ancillary are more likely than theatrical play offshore.
In 1943, after their father’s arrest, the titular Fanny (feisty newcomer Léonie Souchaud) and her clingy younger sisters Erika (Fantine Harduin) and Georgette (Juliane Lepoureau) are taken by their mother to spend the war years in a boarding school in France’s neutral zone, a spot where Jewish children could keep a low profile. But the school isn’t a safe haven for long; the Jewish students are smuggled to another institution in the Italian zone just ahead of a German raid. Doillon shows that the youngest among them barely understand what is going on as they depart with a friendly wave to the priest who informed on them.
Under the care of the formidable, tough but tender Madame Forman (de France), Fanny, who is turning 13, is given a position of responsibility in the school’s kitchen, where she listens admiringly to the boasts of teen cook.
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