A bag of marbles un sac de billes is based on the best selling autobiographical novel by joseph joffo but here we aren t treated to the bleak battlefield often shown with such subject matter.
A bag of marbles comments.
Instead by following the journey of inseparable brothers joseph and maurice we see 1940s france through the innocent eyes of a child.
Fleeing citizens jews and nazi resistors are roughly rounded up.
Familial devotion expressed in treacly but tender fashion is what powers a bag of marbles through its growingly fraught series of complications separations and.
The great value of christian duguay s a bag of marbles is the degree to which it makes such a barbaric and bewildering chapter in human history comprehensible for young audiences.
The beginning of the book starts off during what would seem to be any ordinary day for a ten year old boy who has just lost a game of marbles to his.
Some are shot and killed both in groups.
Yes the film recounts a real life tale of survival but the fate of its lead protagonists in no way diminishes the grueling hardships they face on every step of their journey.