The Inseparables
Author(s):
Grace Joy Howarth, based on the novel by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Lauren Elkin
Running time:
2h approx
France during the First World War.
Nine-year-old Sylvie Lapage prays for France to be saved from the war, but her miracle arrives in the form of the new girl at school. Andrée is unlike anyone else—wildly bright and full of life.
Finally, Sylvie has someone who makes her laugh, someone to talk to about literature, equality, war and religion, someone to call her closest friend. As the girls become inseparable, they battle against the strictness of their sheltered Catholic bourgeois upbringing.
But as the girls grow up and face the mounting pressures of becoming a young woman, will they ever find the freedom they both hunger for?
