2011 · adventure · family
War of the Buttons
Directed by Christophe Barratier1h 40m2011
Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Nazi sympathisers. Lebrac and the village must now respond to the reality of what's happening.
Our read: War of the Buttons (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded adventure · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle adventure / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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