The Guardians

The Guardians (, "The female guardians") is a 2017 French drama film directed and written by Xavier Beauvois. It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot The film is set on a farm in the Limousin region of central France during, and just after, the First World War. With her two sons Georges and Constant, and son-in-law, Clovis, serving in the army, Hortense Sandrail employs Francine Riant, a young woman brought up in an orphanage to help on the farm. Her daughter Solange also lives on the farm but she mainly works in the house. Clovis returns briefly and is a changed man. Later he becomes a prisoner of war. Francine shares a room with young Marguerite, who is in love with Georges, who also visits her whilst on leave. Georges, however, is attracted to Francine and asks her to write to him when he returns to the front. She does, but Marguerite comes across the letters and is angry. Constant dies in the war.