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    'The Guardians' beautifully portrays the dynamics of a family farm in WWI France

    May 18, 2018 2 minutes

    Xavier Beauvois’s marvelous new film, “The Guardians,” which takes place in France over five years beginning in 1915, is set almost entirely on a family-owned farm at a time when the men were absent except for brief leaves from the World War I killing fields. The summer countryside has a honeyed pastoralism that belies the toil it takes to work the land.

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