Suite Française (2014)

Our fourth installment of the Margot Robbie filmography watch through is Suite Française, released in 2014.

Title: Suite Française

Directed by: Saul Dibb

Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes

Watched via: Streaming on HBOMAX

IMDb synopsis: During the early years of Nazi occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier, a French villager, and Lieutenant Bruno von Falk, a German soldier.

If you are like me, after watching the trailer you are probably wondering why we barely saw Margot Robbie. I mean, just last week when we looked at The Wolf of Wall Street, she was in a lead role and announcing her presence to the world. Surely her next movie would be another prominent role. Spoiler alert, that is not the case here. Margot actually filmed her role as Celine before filming her role as Naomi Lapaglia.

As for her role as Celine Joseph, Margot appears very briefly in the film. In fact, we see her initially in the first act and once in the second act as she is getting busy with a Nazi officer in the woods. That is all we see of her and her very unfortunate wig.

Well then, who does the movie focus on? The main focus is on the relationship between the French villager Lucille Angellier (Michelle Williams) and the Nazi Lieutenant Bruno von Falk (Matthias Schoenaerts). And while both are great in their roles, there is nothing here to make the film stand out. It is not that the film fails to be watchable. It just does not bring anything new to the table to stand out from the crowd. Nazis invade France, French woman falls for Nazi soldier, French woman feels conflicted about her love, it is a formula that we have seen a dozen times before. For this reason, Suite Française (2014) is a serviceable wartime drama but ultimately forgettable.

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So, what is coming up next? Next Monday our next installment in the Margot Robbie filmography watch through will be 2015’s Z for Zachariah. If you want to watch it before next week’s post, it is currently available to stream on Freevee and Pluto TV.