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The Law
The Law

THE LAW

La loi, le combat d'une femme pour toutes les femmes

Directed by Christian Faure
France, 2014
Biography, Drama, History

Synopsis

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 Simone Veil, the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government.

Synopsis

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 Simone Veil, the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government.