A Bag of Marbles

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DVD Details

  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 15, 2018
  • Originally Released: 2017
  • Label: Passion River

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 198
"A Bag of Marbles" ("Un sac de billes") turns Nazi-occupied France into an obstacle course for two young Jewish boys on the run, and their plight into slickly sentimental thriller material for all of us. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Mar 22, 2018
Rating: 3/4 -- This isn't the first film to try to deal with the horrors of the Holocaust from a child's perspective, but it's tricky material, and this one succeeds because it is direct and forthright. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Apr 12, 2018
Rating: C -- I can't fault the two pint-sized stars for the lack of empathy and feeling. Both work their rears off attempting to bring depth and meaning to a treacly script by a gang of writers devoid of an original idea. Full Review
The Patriot Ledger
Apr 21, 2018
Emotionally draining tale of two Jewish boys forced to hide their identity in Vichy France. Although conventional in cinematic terms, its succeeds through its story-telling. Full Review
Counterpunch.org
Mar 23, 2018
Remains affecting in spite of its stickiest impulses, and should continue to please audiences without making any claims for classic status within a heavily populated genre. Full Review
Variety
Mar 22, 2018
For those ready to view it on its own terms, its gentle focus on family and persistence should go down easy. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Mar 23, 2018
Rating: 3.5/4 -- The great value of Christian Duguay's film is the degree to which it makes such a barbaric and bewildering chapter in human history comprehensible for young audiences. Full Review
RogerEbert.com
Mar 23, 2018

Product Description:

This is the true story of two young Jewish brothers in German occupied France who, with a mind-boggling mix of mischievousness, courage and ingenuity, will be forced to fend for themselves in order to survive the enemy invasion and try bring their family back together. The heartwarming adaptation of Joseph Joffo s enduring memoir tells the story of the Nazi occupation through the eyes of the two young Jewish boys. Paris, 1941: Joseph and Maurice are the sons of Roman, the local barber. At ages 10 and 12, the boys have so little understanding of the persecution of Jews that Joseph thinks nothing of swapping his yellow star for a bag of marbles. Despite their naiveté, Roman knows that their best chance to escape the Nazi roundup is to flee on their own to Vichy, France, where their older brothers Albert and Henri have found safe haven. Always one false move from tragedy, these tenacious children survive on courage, ingenuity, and more than a bit of cunning as they make their precarious way through France hoping to reunite with their family. More than anything, it s their brotherly bond that gets them through their ordeals. Patrick Bruel resonates as the Jewish family patriarch Roman, while newcomers Dorian Le Clech and Batyste Fleurial Palmieri register an almost agonizing vulnerability as hapless innocents trying to outrun the cruel machinery of war.

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