![]() On a train a member of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) notices Charlotte reading Stendhal’s The Red and the Black in the original French and invites her to a book-publishing party in London. ![]() In Armstrong’s film, a young Scottish woman, Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett), is on her way to London in 1942 during the blitz. During the war northern and northeastern France were directly controlled by the Nazis, while in the rest of the country a pro-fascist, collaborationist regime in Vichy, headed by Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, held sway. ![]() Based on the 1999 bestselling novel by Sebastian Faulks, the movie is set in southern France. Charlotte Gray, directed by Gillian Armstrong, written by Jeremy Brock, based on the novel by Sebastian FaulksĬharlotte Gray is a World War II melodrama directed by veteran Australian filmmaker Gillian Armstrong ( Oscar and Lucinda, 1997 Little Women, 1994 My Brilliant Career, 1979). ![]()
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