La femme tranquille

While apparently based on true events, this movie has all the qualities of a somewhat modern French fable (if something like that could exist...). The main character is an old woman, patron of a typical bistrot with an unusual past. Her aged boyfriend is an equally quirky character and they both have a golden heart: they're the reluctant heroes who try to save an English soldier from the Nazis. They do so in the clumsiest way possible, aided by the clumsiest resistance cell ever existed. Coincidentally, the usual German officer with behavioural issues also takes a room in her bistrot. And the list of coincidences goes on... The acting is good for the most part, but the script hammers too much on the tragic side of the story with no real balance.