Strayed (2003) on Netflix
In June 1940, Odile flees Paris with her children Philippe and Cathy as German troops advance. When planes bomb the refugee road, a shaven-headed teenager, Yvan, leads them to an abandoned house.
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Plot summary
Germany's army is closing on Paris in June 1940, and Odile, a widowed schoolteacher, joins the flight south with thirteen-year-old Philippe and seven-year-old Cathy. German aircraft bomb the crowded road, destroying their car, and the three scatter into the woods. A shaven-headed seventeen-year-old named Yvan, who can hunt and knows the woods, leads them off the road and breaks into a large country house whose musician owners have gone abroad. He cuts the telephone line and hides a radio, keeping the war outside. Odile watches him with suspicion, while Philippe admires his nerve and bribes him to stay, handing over the watch that belonged to the children's father. Yvan hunts rabbits and fishes in a nearby river while Odile keeps the house.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Strayed (2003)
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- Gilles Perrault's novel behind Strayed drew on his own childhood: at nine he fled Paris in June 1940 with his mother and younger sister, much as Philippe does in the film.
- Strayed, André Téchiné's fifteenth film, was his first literary adaptation, made after Jean Ramsay Levi of FIT productions proposed filming Gilles Perrault's 2001 novel The Boy With Grey Eyes.
