The Law

Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014 The Law brilliantly traces three days in late Fall 1974 of stormy debate in the French National Assembly around a bill which would make voluntary termination of pregnancy legal Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos also in The Other Son Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard dEstaing During these three days of violent debate Veil a Jew and Holocaust survivor is spared nothing political negotiations solitude sparring arguments insults and violence to her family In spite of all of this Veil never wavers